Supreme Court nominee met with Dallas gay activists

[kweerwolf]

White House Counsel Harriet Miers, President Bush’s latest nominee for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, met with members of a gay rights group during her successful campaign for a seat on the Dallas City Council in 1989 and later appointed a prominent gay attorney to a city board that oversees federal grants.

News of Miers’ relations with the Dallas gay community surfaced Monday as political groups of all stripes scrambled to learn about her views on issues expected to come before the Supreme Court.

Her nomination came four days after the Senate confirmed Bush’s nomination of federal appeals court Judge John G. Roberts, a conservative, as Chief Justice on the Supreme Court. Gay activists have expressed concern that the president’s two appointees could tip the balance of the court in the direction of opposing gay rights.

Louise Young, former co-chair of the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas, said Miers provided mixed responses to a questionnaire on gay issues that the group sent her during her council campaign, with some of Miers’ responses "non-supportive" on gay rights.

http://www.nyblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2742

[Zynx]

1. Didn't Roberts have some pro-gay activities in the past too?

[kweerwolf]

2. Yes, he did some "coaching"

with the attorneys who argue before the Sumpre Court on the overturning of Romer v. Evans (the Colorado Amendment 2 case).

During his Senate hearing Roberts admitted he would have provided the same services for the other side if they would have approached him first.