Harriet Miers

[LucusHam]

I'm sick and tired of hearing all these people jumping on the bandwagon to bash Miers and claim she is unqualified. I mean, have they looked at her record? True she hasn't sat on the bench before but she has a long and illustrious legal career. I mean can't we all just wait for the hearings to start instead of conjecturing about her stance on key issues?

Just wanted to get that off my chest.

[midcan5]

Lucus, you need to back that up with some specifics. Tell us what she has done, where's the beef?

www.politicalpass.com/2005/10/harriet-miers/

[midcan5]

The spin masters are going full over this one, the bubble man in the white house didn't pick someone 12th century enough. Next time they are giving a test, a few of the questions were released:

Is the earth flat or round?
Does the sun rotate around the earth once a year or once a day?
Is the earth 4000 or 4550 years old?

[LucusHam]

Ok, so Alito has much more judicial experience and more intellectual firepower. What do you think about him? I view him as a great pick.

[midcan5]

I honestly don't know what to think of Alito or for that matter Roberts. The only issue that seems impossibly complex is abortion and I cannot imagine that being changed much. We shall see.

Critics are fond of saying the court should be less activist but when you review the big cases one has to wonder what they really mean - activism like so many thing is in the eyes of the beholder.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

"The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either."

—Justice Henry Billings Brown,
speaking for the majority

www.landmarkcases.org/

[TNRighty]

I'd like to tackle the abortion debate from a constitutional standpoint, NOT A MORAL STANDPOINT. I have my own views about abortion, and I'm sure you do as well, but this post is not about whether abortion is right or wrong.

In 1973 The Supreme Court, citing the Fourteenth Amendment, sided with Roe and made abortion a constitutional right. The link below will take you to the text of the Fourteenth Amendment. It won't take you two minutes to read it.

caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/

I just don't see how you can debate either side of the abortion issue under the language of the Fourteenth Amendment, and I really can't find anything in the Constitution that explicitly addresses it. In my opinion, Justices of the Supreme Court should be constitutionally honest and not reach to extrapolate from the constitution anything that defends or legalizes abortion. There's just nothing there.

I think an Abortion Amendment should be an issue in and of itself and a vote on it should go back to the states.

[TNRighty]

To continue...

This debate deserves due legislative process, not Judicial interpretation.