MIERS ON THE CONSTITUTION….On her Senate questionnaire, Harriet Miers only took a stab at answering one question about her experience with constitutional law ? and she blew it:
At one point, Miers described her service on the Dallas City Council in 1989. When the city was sued for violating the Voting Rights Act, she said, the council “had to be sure to comply with the proportional representation requirement of the Equal Protection clause.”
But the Supreme Court repeatedly has said that the Constitution’s guarantee of the “equal protection of the laws” does not mean that city councils or state legislatures must have enough minority members to match the proportion of blacks, Hispanics and Asians in the voting population.
….Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan…said she was surprised the White House did not check Miers’ questionnaire before sending it to the Senate.
“Are they trying to set her up? Any halfway competent junior lawyer could have checked the questionnaire and said it cannot go out like that. I find it shocking,” she said.
So much for that famous attention to detail. This soap opera just gets worse with every passing day.
