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October 18, 2005
Miers on Roe: will she or won’t she
While James Dobson has come out to say that Karl Rove never told him how Miers would vote on Roe, it looks like Dobson may have gotten that information somewhere else. John Fund of the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal obtained notes from a conference call (that included Dobson and other religious conservatives) where two of Miers’ close friends said that she would vote to overturn Roe. Yikes.
However, yesterday Miers said, “'No one knows how I would rule on Roe v. Wade.” Ok, but I’m not convinced.
In addition, The Washington Post reports that Miers’ position on privacy rights have become somewhat convoluted:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) emerged from a 100-minute meeting with the nominee and said that she stated she believes that a right to privacy exists. Initially, Specter told reporters that Miers had said "she backs Griswold," referring to a 1965 case that dealt with access to contraceptives on the basis of privacy considerations.
But last night, a spokesman for Specter issued a statement saying that Miers had called him after his public comments "to say that he misunderstood her and that she had not taken a position on Griswold or the privacy issue."
What is going on here?!
Posted by Jessica at October 18, 2005 10:56 AM
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