Mostly in the Middle? Evidence Is Scant, but Harriet Miers has Tipped Her Hand On a Few Issues
The Columbian › October 05, 2005
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WASHINGTON Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' footprints on contentious social issues suggest a moderate position on gay rights, an interest in advancing women and minorities and sympathy for anti- abortion efforts. Judging from the Smith & Wesson she once packed, she favors gun rights, too.
Miers' years as a corporate lawyer and White House insider have produced a record so scant that court-watchers are picking through 16-year-old Dallas city council votes and the like to divine how she might come down on constitutional matters.See the full content of this document
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Mostly in the Middle? Evidence Is Scant, but Harriet Miers has Tipped Her Hand On a Few Issues
She is not a completely blank slate.
A decade before the 2001 terrorist attacks, Miers defended constitutional freedoms in a time of danger, with words that would hearten two groups of activists in the post-9...See the full content of this document
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