Miers
Jonah Goldberg comes out againts Miers for the same reasons that bothered me: her support for “diversity,” i.e. racial discrimination, and her go-along-to-get-along attitude towards liberals.
The article that caused his decision is here. It also confirms that Alberto Gonzales is as bad on these issues as conservatives have feared:
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.…
Miers was a believer in mentoring programs, but during her tenure she and the board of directors went further, passing a resolution urging Texas law firms to set a goal of hiring one qualified minority lawyer for every 10 new associates. The directors also reiterated support for a policy of setting aside a specific number of seats on the board for women and minorities.
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The person who was the primary mover behind the policy that set hiring goals for law firms was [Alberto] Gonzales, who at the time served on the state bar board with Miers.
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At the full board meeting, a stand-in for Gonzales stressed to Miers and others that the policy was “aspirational,” and “not a quota by any means.” Gonzales, whose spokeswoman declined the opportunity to comment, would later call it a “concrete goal” firms should meet in an update to the board six months later.
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