Miers NOT a "strict constructionist"

From today's Washington Post

As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.

This should set to rest any notion that she might avoid "legislating from the bench." There is no question that if what Miers enacted had been reversed - set asides or targets to help ensure not too many minorities were in the Texas Bar or Texas Bar leadership - that this would have been seen by anyone to violate the 1964 Civil Rights act. Everyone knows you're not allowed to enact preferences in favor of whites since that automatically causes a preference against all other groups. It is also certain that Miers didn't think she was doing anything illegal by enacting preferences for blacks (and women). But to my knowledge, the 1964 Civil Rights Act mentions race, not blacks or minorities. Thus she must not see the law as governed by the plain language of the statute, but instead by acheiving the "right result."

Auntie-anti-Miers S'saurus. You with us now? (I've given up on ssc.)