The Final Staw, Harriet Meirs--(continued from page 1 of Archives of News and Notes)

I Pray she withdraws.

    The merits of the case for Miers must be based on evidence that can be examined and weighed, and there is none in her case. Being a constitutionalist, someone who respects the constitution and the separate rolls of the Legislative Body to legislate and the High Court to uphold law is not something that we should have to hope exists in her defining character and convictions. I am sure she has a “good heart”. But there is no verifiable evidence in her practice, or in her expressed opinions, written nor oral that assert that she is going to protect our Constitution from further damage and erosion of our individual rights, freedoms and liberties that make it possible for us to be the prosperous nation that we are. 

     It does not matter if Miers is an evangelical Christian. Many Evangelicals in our country entertain or embrace socialist political constricts which reject fundamental liberties and rights that are stipulated in our US Constitution. They reconcile their conflict by embracing the view of our Constitution as a living breathing document that is not fundamental, but rather, subject to interpretation and modernizing.

     The President's and the White House's reaction to the opposition to Harriet Meirs's nomination is patronizing and tone deaf. He and Laura Bush have acted out in public as if conservative opponents to Miers were being capricious. His actions suggest that he views “conservatives” as a monolithic group that is gullible and one-dimensional. It's hard to fathom that Bush wouldn't realize how insulting his defense is, to argue that she's a good candidate because she's evangelical. So what?

     The American people love our freedom. We don't want a Leftist authoritarian Supreme Court and we don't want a Right Wing authoritarian Supreme Court. Being forced to do something or be something is not a virtue. The virtue in being a Christian is a choice by our free will. Roe vs Wade was an abuse of power and a mockery of the Constitution, granted.  The Court in making that decision acted thuggish, dismissing the liberties and freedom of the states in which abortion was not legal.  It was not their decision to make, at least not with the pretext of one's right to privacy. 

It is wrong to want to replace one Court decision which is a rule by fiat with another.   To honor the spirit of the Supreme Law of the land, is to want the court to uphold the Constitution as it is written, to protect our civil liberties and our private property rights regardless of our individual faith. That Miers is an evangelical Christian does not matter in terms of her qualifications and merit to serve on the Bench. Is she prone or predisposed to legislate from the bench? That is the question. There is no evidence, no paper trail to quell such concerns and such fundamentally important considerations.

     The President's choice and the White House's defense of it can be construed as patronizing and that is very uncomfortable for I want very much to support the President. I have had much hope and faith in him. And we, as a country, need him to be a strong leader for us and against our enemies. He must understand how seriously this act abuses the good will of his strongest and most loyal supporters.