Comments on: BREAKING: Miers Also Suspended from Texas Bar

By: Stat Babe

Stat Babe — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:31:38 +0000

I have held a dental license for over 20 years, and I have NEVER failed to pay for its renewal! Furthermore, I do not believe the person above who claims to work at a hospital where 5 to 10 physicians lose their privileges every month for failure to keep their licenses current. That would mean that between 60 and 120 physicians at that particular hospital lose their privileges every year because of tardiness in paying their license renewal. Unless the hospital in question is a large urban hospital like Mass General or Boston Medical Center, such a large number would constitute most of the physicians actively practicing in a hospital, which I find VERY hard to believe!

If this particular lapse had occurred only once with Miers, one might be able to explain it away somehow. But for a nominee to the SCOTUS whose resume is already pretty thin, this only reinforces that Miers is not a suitable candidate–especially when her strongest asset is supposed to be that she is “very meticulous”. (After all, it’s hardly meticulous to forget to pay for your law license renewal.) If Miers had any sense at all, she would withdraw her name herself BEFORE the Senate Judiciary Committee makes her look like a fool!

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:31:48 +0000

Anyone who is a member of a state bar associaton (and I belong to three) knows that you would have to ignore dozens of emails, letters, and reminders (including, in most states, certified letters) to fail to pay your dues and get suspended. Very weak. Very weak indeed.

By: Rh

Rh — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:41:54 +0000

I am a professional license holder in health Industry and I wonder if I would ever be allowed to practice my trade with a suspended license. It is a disgrace to see our country being reduces to the status of a third world.

By: stan

stan — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:26:00 +0000

what a joke of a story. its like not paying blockbuster of something.

By: Hunter Morrow

Hunter Morrow — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:33:27 +0000

I absolutely refuse to believe that the President would nominate someone this incompetent and so obviously tied to the White House’s fate as Miers without some ulterior motive.
1: The unholy Allian of Scalia, Thomas, and Miers protecting everybody from indictment and setting the country back 50 years…
2: Making the next guy look so good that he is a lock. This is where the real stealth loon gets dropped on us.

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By: John Sibley

John Sibley — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:36:02 +0000

According to her official bio at:
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2172806_1?channel=LP

…she was a Director of the Texas Bar at the time of her suspension. Can anyone confirm this?

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:32 +0000

You don’t have only one shot to pay the dues. They ACTUALLY send a second notice and, if the attorney is of any note at all, the bar director will give a courtesy call and make sure you have received the notice and see if there is a problem. Also, this comes up EVERY year. It’s kind of ON THE CALENDAR, of which every attorney keeps, usually, at least two – one virtual and one “hard” calendar. If the firm has more than a couple of attorneys, the secretary and/or the receptionist will also have a copy of the calendar.

C’mon, I have never heard of any COMPETENT attorney “forgetting” to pay. And twice? Well, if there is a first time, there should NEVER be a second time.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:19:21 +0000

So this is actually three instances of Miers lack of attention to details. She twice forgot to pay dues until suspension 1]from the Texas bar and 2]then the DC bar. Also, 2]she forgot to take mowing/weed removal care of the properties for which she holds responsibility [power of attorney for her Mom who is in a nursing home] until the local government had to do the clean-up and cite and charge Miers for her negligence [I think this may have also involved multiple instances].

By: Hunter Morrow

Hunter Morrow — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:43:29 +0000

This is just one more piece in the elegant strategy of “The Ugly Girlfriend” Scheme. After Miers is trashed soundly by a newly united and invigorated Republican base Rove will just trot out a far-right wunderkind who will look like unto a God after Miers. Watch for it, its going to happen.

By: mysticagent

mysticagent — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:26:13 +0000

#28 — Dude… chill out a bit.

By: Mr. Evil

Mr. Evil — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:07:33 +0000

I’m quite sure most of us here would just love to not pay our bills or dues or whatever and get handsomely rewarded for it! What a joke.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:07:10 +0000

Oops, I forgot to pay my taxes…please forgive me and give me a lifetime highpaying job.

By: m

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:51:21 +0000

isn’t harriet miers inability to “pay her dues” just a metaphor for her larger failure to “pay her dues”? seriously. the blatent cronyism that launched her and her benefactor to the white house have immunized them to the small details that afflict the ‘reality-based’ community.

By: MELANDELL

MELANDELL — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:43:09 +0000

Sorry to disappoint, but i dont know of any competent practicing atty, in any firm size – large, midsize,or small, that has been suspended for not paying dues on time. I’ve been practicing 15 years. Its really not that hard. You get the bill (and the mandatory disclosure page, which you have to sign), sign where applicable and either pay it or give it to the office manager to pay it.

Now, if you dont have a system in place to pay bills on a timely basis, I guess you might be delinquent. But when you get the second letter, you would expect that there would be holy hell to pay for the person who failed to get the materials turned into the state bar on time.

If you still dont pay, and get suspended, then whose fault is it? In law, an attorney is responsible for the mistakes of his/her staff.

Oh, and is she being reprimanded by the dc bar for practicing law in the district for 4 months without a license?

By: idlecrank

idlecrank — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:09:20 +0000

I know, I know the new talking point will be that she’s a trusted friend of Georgie…ohhh…wait…how about she’s a really hard worker and pays attention to details…oh wait…how about she has an excellent legal mind…oh…wait….

Now the dues thing is a bit of blunder but I can see how it happens. I mean in my line of work the dean via the dept. head via the various other admin people in the dept. send out a constant barrage of emails at the end of the term reminding people to submit grades for the courses they are teaching. Mostly it happens when someone isn’t teaching but has graduate students doing research, etc. You know the student needs a grade, but…. Then again, we are talking about someone nominated to the SCOTUS.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:04:43 +0000

Honestly, if we are going to use the fact that Harriet Mier is not qualified because she is suspend from the Texas Bar on the techinically of her forgetting to pay her dues is nothing but redudant

It’s not different than the comparation that just because the United States has been paid their United Nation’s dues for the passed forty years (thank you Jesse Helms), therefore we are not qualified to be on the council.

By: The Muse

The Muse — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:42:32 +0000

Good God, suspended from two bars and fined for not keeping up her property in Dallas.

I’ve been thrown out of a few bars and my home owners association is always up my ass about something.

I may be supreme court material.

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By: sukabi

sukabi — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:28:47 +0000

ok, so she’s been deliquent on different bar dues at different times… sorry… she’s probably got a tab at the local bar as well…

By: katy

katy — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:28:04 +0000

well, damn, ryan 13…i really hate to say this, but you broke the spell… maybe …..these posts by n.e.d. have, HAD, been the most coherant and amiable i’ve EVER read by her/him/it…miracles never cease…
the thing that bothers me most is what is to become of “us” and “them” in the future…will we EVER get along? dream on, i suppose….”imagine”