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Judging Harriet Miers: Democrats must rise up and challenge conservative claptrap about "activist judges" (Stephen J. Fortunato Jr., October 5, 2005, In These Times)

The confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the nomination on October 3 of Harriet E. Miers as an Associate Justice are the right-wing's exclamation points at the end of a line of neoconservative judges who have paraded onto the federal bench during George W. Bush's presidency. Miers will provide no solace to those who think law in a constitutional democracy should protect individuals from official excesses and corporate predations.

Like John Roberts, Miers spent her professional career representing the interests of mega-corporations until she became a counselor to a right-wing administration. Like Roberts, her record is devoid of any work on behalf of poor people accused of crime or groups fighting for their civil rights (in a 1999 survey of the country's largest law firms, The American Lawyer ranked the 206-lawyer firm headed by Miers as 53rd out of 69 comparably sized offices in terms of the amount of pro bono work provided to the community). And like Roberts she passes Bush's unconstitutional prerequisite that federal judges have a religious faith. Her former pastor told The New York Times, "Harriet has placed her faith in Jesus." This type of religiosity has been required by Bush of all his appointees, though Article VI of the United States Constitution unambiguously provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

It's the religious test that makes them theocons, not neocons.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 5, 2005 6:18 PM