2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 6, 2005 NATION/WORLD AP PHOTO U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, meets with White House counsel Harriet Miers on Capitol Hill yesterday. Some wored over Mirs Conservative lawmakers question Supreme Court nominee's qualifications WASHINGTON (AP) - Conserva- tives continued to question President Bush's nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court yesterday, causing a rare fracture in the GOP's attempts to move the fed- eral judiciary to the right. "There are a lot more people - men, women and minorities - that are more qualified in my opinion by their experience than she is," said Sen. Trent Lott, (R-Miss.), formerly the Senate Majority leader. Lott said it's not enough for the presi- dent to say "trust me," when it comes to the Supreme Court. "I don't just automatically salute or take a deep bow anytime a nominee is sent up," Lott told MSNBC. "I have to find out who these people are, and right now, I'm not satisfied with what I know." "President Bush has an excellent record of appointing judges who recognize the proper role of the courts, which is to inter- pret the law according to its actual text, and not to legislate from the bench," said David O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee. "We believe that Harriet Miers is another nom- inee who will abide by the text and history of the Constitution." GOP Sen. John Cornyn, a fellow Texan, a former judge and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also came out for Miers after meeting with her yesterday morning. Cornyn said he believes her Senate Judiciary confir- mation hearing could begin as early as Nov. 7. "I don't need to reserve judgment because I know she's the right person for the job now," said Cornyn, who has known Miers for 15 years. Cornyn acknowledged that Miers faces problems from some conserva- tives. "The president in a sense has dis- armed some of his critics, but also made some of his supporters nervous by this nomination," Cornyn said. Conservatives in some cases are expressing outright opposition, some are in wait-and-see mode and others are silent, all bad signs for a Bush adminis- tration used to having the full backing of all wings of the GOP when it takes on the Senate's minority Democrats over judicial selection. "I'm getting reports on both sides," said Paul Weyrich, a conserva- tive leader from the Free Congress Foundation. "Some people are quite enthused about her and other people are very upset. The grass-roots are not happy, I can tell you that." - -U-- - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - Senate restncts prisoner abuse Amendment prohibits cruel punishment against anyone in U.S. custody WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to impose restrictions on the treatment of terror- ism suspects, delivering a rare wartime rebuke to President Bush. Defying the White House, senators voted 90-9 to approve an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government cus- tody, regardless of where they are held. The amendment was added to a $440 billion military spending bill for the budget year that began Oct. 1. The proposal, sponsored by Sen. John McCain, also requires all service members to follow procedures in the Army Field Manual when they detain and interrogate terrorism suspects. Bush administration officials say the legislation would limit the president's authority and flexibility in war. But lawmakers from each party have said Congress must provide U.S. troops with clear standards for detaining, interro- gating and prosecuting terrorism suspects in light of allegations of mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay and the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "We demanded intelligence without ever clearly telling our troops what was permitted and what was forbidden. And when things went wrong, we blamed them and we punished them," said McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam. "Our troops are not served by ambi- guity. They are crying out for clarity and Congress cannot shrink from this duty," said McCain, (R-Ariz.) The Senate was expected to vote on the overall spending bill by weeks' end. The House-approved version of it does not include the detainee provisions. It is unclear how much support the measure has in the GOP-run House. However, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense, is supporting McCain's legisla- tion. Murtha could prove a powerful ally when House and Senate negotiators meet to reconcile differences in their bills. The confrontation by members of the president's own party shows how reluc- tant some lawmakers are to give him unchecked wartime power as the con- flict in Iraq drags on and U.S. casualties mount. It also comes as the president seeks to show strength after weeks in which his approval rating plummeted, with Americans questioning the direc- tion of the war, the sluggish federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the upsurge in gas prices. Sen. Ted Stevens, (R-Alaska), said he was concerned that McCain's legis- lation could inadvertently endanger the lives of people who work in classified roles. He said he hoped to fix the poten- tial problems during negotiations with the House. "There are some changes that have to be made if we are going to be faithful to those people who live in the classified world," Stevens said. Also pending is an amendment by Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.), that would distinguish between a "lawful enemy combatant" and an "unlawful enemy combatant." His proposal would put into law the procedures for pros- ecuting them at the Navy's Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. H UNGRY? (Whcan be y s er You neve eed a paper me u or a phooe again) . :T C m. FREE & EASY TO USE (Why 2Goclublcom? No tees or dues. A large variety of restaurants to choose front Eare free food. No monto language barriers or ioaccrate orders. No more busy signals or being put on hod. Restaurant eouo ate put on the site - simply click to order! JOIN TODAY!) WASHINGTON Roberts questions assisted suicide Newly installed Chief Justice John Roberts sharply questioned a lawyer argu- ing for preservation of Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law yesterday, noting the federal government's tough regulation of addictive drugs. The 50-year-old Roberts, hearing his first oral argument since succeeding William Rehnquist at the helm of the court, seemed skeptical of the Oregon law, and the outcome of this case was as unclear after the argument as before. At the outset, Roberts laid a barrage of questions on Oregon Senior Assistant Attorney General Robert Atkinson before he could finish his first sentence. "It's a tough case," signed Justice Anthony Kennedy, a moderate, who with Roberts and others got immersed in one of the most vexing cases to come before the court. Justices pondered whether the federal government has the power to block doctors from helping terminally ill patients end their lives. BAGHDAD Iraqi parliament reverses on electoral law Iraq's parliament voted yesterday to reverse last-minute changes to rules for next week's referendum on a new constitution after the United Nations said they were unfair. Sunni Arabs responded by dropping their threat to boycott the vote and promised to reject the charter at the polls. U.N. and U.S. officials welcomed the reversal, saying it helped restore integ- rity to the crucial Oct. 15 referendum and urged all Iraqis to participate. The United Nations, which was supervising the referendum, and U.S. offi- cials had pressed Iraqi leaders to drop the rule change, which would have made it nearly impossible for the constitution to be defeated and jeopardized efforts to bring Sunnis into the political process. HILLAH, Iraq Bomb at Shiite mosque kills 25, wounds 87 A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad as hundreds of worshippers gathered for prayers on the first day of Ramadan and for the funeral of a man killed in an earlier bombing. At least 25 people were killed and 87 wounded. The explosion hit the Husseiniyat Ibn al-Nama mosque, ripping through strings of lightbulbs and green and red flags hung around the entrance to celebrate the start of the holy month. The mosque's facade was ravaged, shops nearby were destroyed and several cars were damaged. 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