Harriet Miers the pick AP

[johnmecainrino]

Harriet Miers

[isrul]

"Harry Reid supports her, and suggested she would be acceptable."

That's not what I heard on the bottom of the hour news from FOX affiliate. I heard that Reid urged Bush to pick her.

[TomGuy]

Per Senator Cornyn on Tony Snow's radio program, Harry Reid was the one who suggested Miers to Bush as the appointee.

[Soul Seeker]

Who?

[veronica]

Where is it written that "women" are by definition required to marry and bare children?

The she's-not-married-must-be-gay haironfire crowd reminds me of Dianne Feinstein begging Roberts to tell her how he feels as a man. What does that have to do with interpreting the law?

[mwl1]

Rehnquist was just a lawyer in the Justice Dept when Nixon tapped him for the Supreme Court.

He turned out quite fine, and I am convinced that the President knows that Miers is a strict constructionist.

I go on faith with this President, and I think he has put the RATS in one Hell of a box.

[beckysueb]

I agree. I got flamed the other day for mentioning her.

[lawdude]

"Pisses me off. Well, don't know that I will be voting next year."


Ya, you have so many picks. Ranging from Liberal to Conservative. I know where I would be on those choices.

[Alex Marko]

Liar.

[ConservativeMan55]

I just got an e-mail from the RNC that says Harriet Miers needs my help?

I'm sending them back an e-mail saying that if they think I am going to help Harriet Miers..they are the ones that need the help!

[ConservativeDude]

Someone told me that in her remarks that she said that GWB is the most brilliant man she has ever met.

GWB is a decent man, a nice man, a man of above average intelligence for sure. But someone who has never met someone more brilliant than him just needs to get out more.

I wonder what she'll think of Scalia and Thomas. She'll probably think they're just "mean."

[p. henry]

I agree. She seems to be the anti-Roberts. He had every qualification for the job. She has none. He was first in his class at Harvard, clerked for Rehnquist, worked for a major league law firm, and sat on the DC Circuit. She graduated from a second-rate law school, was managing partner of a firm I have never heard of, and was President of the Texas State Bar Association. So what? Heck, my neighbor was President of the California State Bar, and he's not Supremes material.

Even if she does turn out to be a conservative, does she have the intellectual fire power to help move the Court to the right? The evidence would seem to indicate that she does not. What a wasted opportunity.

[TTRR]

Cindy_cin, along with all knee jerkers on this site, who are freaking out.

[Steelerfan]

Early 50's I believe. Do not know much about his positions, but he is articulate. Hope he makes a good canidate.

[ohioWfan]

So your singular objection to this nomination is that she is that the President knows and trusts her?

That's what's got you in a tizzy?

[LikeLight]

I guess you must have heard wrong (or he said it wrong, but corrected it in the transcript)

He said it right. I very clearly heard "Exodus Ministries" when he said it.

[xzins]

Thank you. You all do great work....which is why I'll be contributing shortly.

FR is the best, fastest news anywhere.

[beckysueb]

Whatever.

[gortklattu]

Designed failure, with Janice Rogers on deck?

[Rutles4Ever]

Let me ask you a couple questions.


1. Are you glad that Clarence Thomas is on the Supreme Court?

2. Was all the pain in getting him confirmed worth it?


If you answered 'yes' - which I'm thinking you did - what in the hell is W thinking by nominating a career politician (excuse me, STATE LOTTERY COMMISSIONER) with absolutely ZERO judicial track record to maybe the most important Supreme Court vacancy of our generation and maybe a generation to come?

How can you defend this nonsense when there are at least a half dozen MINIMUM extraordinary candidates out there who - though they may have a rocky confirmation - have achieved there bona fides on the bench and are RELIABLY conservative and originalist? For the party that decries affirmative action as a slap in the face of the notion that those who are BEST QUALIFIED should be rewarded, I cannot believe that you are defending the nomination of Harriet Miers when Alito, Jones, Luttig, Williams, Sykes, Brown, and others are slam dunk justices "in the mold of Scalia and Thomas".

Forget about these guys - this is a slap in the face to Justice Thomas and Judge Bork who stood in the firestorm, bloodied and beaten so Bush could appoint an old friend.

At this point, I don't care if she turns out to be the clone of Anton Scalia. The White House couldn't stomach a tough confirmation and stuck a shiv in the backs of some of the most qualifies and deserving jurists this nation has ever produced.

This is a disgrace.

[faithincowboys]

Yeah, and he was considereably younger and married . She's effing 60 and never married.... to put it mildly, I'm not loving this nomination.