HARRIET MIERS: HEAVEN AND HELL

HARRIET MIERS'S NOMINATION lies somewhere between heaven and hell for one reason.  Miers has told the truth.  Both versions of it. [story]  Miers has her own conscience, but we are told a judge must decide by law.  We are told we entrust justice to those who put law before conscience, but what we really do is trust the conscience of a justice. 

IF THE LAW IS TO OUR LIKING we say rule by law and that conscience has no place.  If the law to us is evil, we appeal to the power of conscience.  So the soul of justice speaks or the machinery of law clanks on this earth, somewhere below heaven, in a land that feels the heat of hell.

The White House was quick to emphasize that Ms. Miers's personal views should not be used to predict how she would rule on any case.

"The role of a judge is very different from the role of a candidate or a political officeholder," said Scott McClellan, a White House spokesman.

Ms. Miers, Mr. McClellan said, "recognizes that personal views and ideology and religion have no role to play when it comes to making decisions on the bench."
 

HYPOCRISY ONLY walks where people would have it both ways.  We ask for judges who come neutral to the case before them.  The Heretik wholey favors those who are partial to justice.  The Heretik strongly believes that those who declaim for laws protecting the unborn in reality do injustice to women already alive.  No one commands abortion for all.  The empty rhetoric in the fight over judges and their views masks the struggle for women who ask for justice to lead full lives.

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[Night Bird]

I have not believed much of what comes out of the White House since 2001, so I am not going to believe that Miers personal views would not predict how she would rule on a case.

Blah...to Ms. Miers.