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George Will is quite rightly recognized as among the two or three finest pundits of the last 25 years. Put aside his bow ties and his very well known love of baseball: Will has consistently produced entertaining and insightful prose over a very long period of time. It is simply wrong to reject Will as "no big deal." But he can and does throw spokes, and he did so in Sunday's column. From Will's column: "Last week's ruling divided the justices into unlikely cohorts, thereby providing a timely reminder that concepts such as ``judicial activism,'' ``strict construction'' and ``original intent''...

CONTEST...PROCRASTINATING, DON'T TELL LEONARD Hi everyone! OK I'm not supposed to be blogging, I have to work on my Murder Boards and my Questionnaire (and might I add, its going to be the best questionnaire ever , I should apologize to future nominees for setting such a high precedent! J/K LOL... if only...) . Anyway I'm taking a short break just have to remind you, today is the deadline for the Call You're Senators logo contest. You probably thought I forgot... no way Jose, I'm a nominee of my word!! Also I should explain about "Don't Tell Leonard," Leonard Leo...

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. The Supreme Court nominee's words and actions from the early 1990s, when she held key leadership positions as president-elect and president of the state bar, provide the first window into her personal views on affirmative action, an area in which the Supreme Court is closely divided and where Miers could tip the court's balance. Her tenure at the bar...

The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday. "White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people, saying, 'We're not discussing pulling out her nomination, but if we were to, do you have any advice as to how we should do it?' " a conservative Republican with ties to the White House told The Washington Times yesterday. The White House denied making such calls. "Absolutely not true," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said. But a conservative political...

Though not giving it much more than 'rumor' treatment, on Fox & Friends Weekend it was just reported that the White House is reaching out to GOP senators as to their recommendations for 'Plan B' in the event Miers is withdrawn. One of the F&F hosts clarifed that according to the information Fox has received, it is not WH aides who are doing the outreach directly, but conservative surrogates.

The Problem For decades, the secular Left has used the Supreme Court as a means to bypass our constitutional legislative process and implement a radical left-wing agenda. Liberal special interest groups has consistently pushed for the nomination of justices who will uphold their radical positions, rather than justices who will decide whether those positions are truly justifiable under existing Constitutional law. Conservatives have fought back for years to return the Court to its rightful role as an interpreter of the Constitution (i.e. a strict constructionist body). We have finally arrived at a moment in history where this goal could now...

With the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has come great confusion and angst among conservatives. What was Bush thinking? Circumstances have endowed him with a rare opportunity to reshape the jurisprudential mold of the Supreme Court for decades, but he has squandered it in the name of cronyism. With Roberts, we got one of the best, most intelligent appellate lawyers in the country. With Miers, we got the former head of the Texas Lottery Commission. In effect, the President has snubbed the conservative legal movement, which has spent decades raising crops of undoubtedly well-qualified and brilliant jurists....

WASHINGTON — Asked to describe the constitutional issues she had worked on during her legal career, Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers had relatively little to say on the questionnaire she sent to the Senate this week. And what she did say left many constitutional experts shaking their heads. At one point, Miers described her service on the Dallas City Council in 1989. When the city was sued on allegations that it violated the Voting Rights Act, she said, "the council had to be sure to comply with the proportional representation requirement of the Equal Protection Clause." But the Supreme...

Jonah bails entirely on Harriet... THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF [Jonah Goldberg ] My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot. No more. After reading this story I'm officially against Miers. I'm with the Editors , Will, Frum, and Krauthammer. It's not just that Miers was in favor of racial quotas -- we'd pretty much known that for a while. It's the fundamental confirmation that she's a go-along-with-the-crowd establishmentarian. The...