Summary
Harriet Miers apes former liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun in saluting racial and gender quotas and set-asides. She disputes the equal opportunity North Star of Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. But President George W. Bush says Miss Miers is a philosophical clone of Justices Scalia and Thomas, and Mr. Bush says conservatives should trust him.
As president-elect and president of the Texas Bar Association in the early 1990s, Miss Miers supported a resolution passed by the board of governors urging law firms to prefer minorities over non- minorities in hiring for five years to make their rosters less monochromatic. Specifically, the resolution summoned firms to set a minority hiring goal of 10 percent, a mandate which board member Alberto Gonzales later characterized as a concrete goal that should be met. (Touting Mr. Gonzales as a trustworthy conservative, President Bush appointed him as White House Counsel. There he fought the Department of Justice against ending racial preferences in admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003). He was rewarded by appointment as attorney general. In flirting with Mr. Gonzales as a Supreme Court nominee, the president has loudly defended his conservative credentials).See the full content of this document
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Set-Aside Baggage
Miss Miers retained a state bar policy that set aside four seats on the board of directors for women and minorities. A craving to make the state bar appear more politically correct, not past discrimination, explai...
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