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Article: Empowering the executive branch: an issue that must not be overlooked regarding Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers is her staunch support for the Bush agenda of executive branch empowerment.(SUPREME COURT)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- October 31, 2005
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The talking heads on television keep yammering on and on about the same questions regarding President Bush's nomination of Harriet E. Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court: Is Miers a conservative or liberal? A constitutionalist or activist? Will she vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?
Given Miers' lack of judicial history, questions about her nomination turn to political matters. Miers contributed to Al Gore's presidential campaign in 1988 at the then-legal maximum of $1,000 and gave the same amount to the election campaign of Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen. She said she supported "equal rights" for homosexuals, but opposed repeal of the Texas state sodomy law. She is known ...