Posted on 10/05/2005 9:07:01 AM PDT by RepublicNewbie
The naming of White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has provoked serious concern among some conservatives. They worry that Miers may take positions all too similar to O'Connor's on issues like affirmative action. O'Connor was often the swing vote on controversial social issues from abortion to school prayer, and she actually wrote the majority opinion in one of the most important decisions on affirmative action in the last two decades. Writing for a 5-4 majority in a University of Michigan law school case, Grutter v. Bollinger, O'Connor upheld the use of race to achieve diversity, but she then joined the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Breyer to reject the university's affirmative action program for undergraduates in Gratz v. Bollinger. Most conservatives hoped that with O'Connor gone, the Supreme Court might revisit affirmative action with a decision that once and for all rejects racial preferences as permissible public policy. But it may be that even without further action by the court, the practice of granting preference to minority students is beginning to lose favor on college campuses.
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Does NARAL oppose the nomination? If not, then she's wrong for the job.
I support using NARAL's opposition as a litmus test for damn near everything, since they are so far left and one-trick ponies.
NARAL knows better than to support the person in whom they are interested in this climate.
They are more likely to oppose to whatever degree. Do you truly think they are utterly stupid?
What does it mean if they haven't yet outright opposed?
http://www.naral.org/about/newsroom/pressrelease/pr10032005_miers.cfm
If they are that smart then I give them their political due. But I can't believe that they would not be out there shrieking if this candidate did not absolutely toe the line as they see it.
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