[NavVet]

She may turn out to be a great justice. But if she isn't an origanist, we would still have the problem of justices making laws based on interpreting personal policy preferences, instead of applying the law.

[GarySpFc]

She may turn out to be a great justice. But if she isn't an origanist, we would still have the problem of justices making laws based on interpreting personal policy preferences, instead of applying the law.

Firstly, I fully agree with your point on immigration. I hope you can imagine how I feel when it is going to take 9 years for my stepdaughter to immigrate her legally, and her mother is a citizen.

Secondly, I have no doubt that Miers is an originalist. May I suggest you read the following:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502907/posts I posted what Leo Leonard of The Federalist Society had to say in another thread. Here it is for everyone else:

http://presidentaristotle.blogspot.com/2005/10/case-for-miers-when-things-look-blurry.html