Al Mohler has weighed-in in favor of Harriet Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court. After listing arguments against and in favor of her nomination, he appears to conclude that her pros outweigh her cons. He writes, “Her nomination deserves our support and close attention.”
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Miers Found Christ and Turned Republican
White House Counsel Harriet Miers speaks after being nominated by President George W. Bush as Supreme Court Justice during a statement from the Oval Office on Monday October 3, 2005. -White House photo by Paul Morse According to the Matt Drudge, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers found Christ in 1979, and then became a Republican. Drudge is saying that the New York Times is set to splash the story on front pages tomorrow morning. Well, this could be a tough pill for Harry Reid to swallow. Her merits of personal affability and answering phone calls promptly are not likely to outweigh the unconscionable demerit of her being an evangelical. For…
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Encouraging News about Harriet Miers?
World magazine’s blog has an encouraging set of entries on Harriet Miers. According to an interview with her good friend, Texas Supreme Court justice Nathan Hecht, she is an originalist in her approach to constitutional (and biblical!) interpretation. The blog also reports that Miers is a committed evangelical Christian who is a regular tither to her church in Dallas and who holds the same position on abortion as the majority of other evangelicals in America. As for reports that Miers donated money to Democrat candidates for President in the late 80’s, Hecht says, “If she did it, it was because [her law] firm made her do it.”
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It’s Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers, White House counsel, being named to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She was on the short list, and now she is the one. President Bush has nominated Harriet Miers to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Sandra Day O’Connor. Miers has no “paper trail,” as it were, having never served as a judge. We will be following this nomination very closely. Stay tuned. New York Times’ Profile of Harriet Miers