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Bush Defends Pick of Harriet Miers

HeadlineOct 05, 2005

In Washington, President Bush held a daytime press conference on Monday and spent most of the time defending his selection of Harriet Miers as his nominee to the Supreme Court. The selection of Miers has been widely criticized by conservatives because so little is known about her personal politics. She has never served as a judge. Miers Is “On The Extreme End of the Anti-Choice Movement” Later in the press conference, President Bush said he did not recall ever sitting down with Miers to discuss her view on abortion. But a former colleague of Miers’ says her stance on abortion is clear. Lorlee Bartos–who ran Miers 1989 campaign for Dallas City Council–said “She is on the extreme end of the anti-choice movement. I think Harriet’s belief was pretty strongly felt. I suspect she is of the same cloth as the president.”

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