"Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.
"After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.
"A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review."
Miers was an SMU graduate who also had law review experience. She went on to clerk for a federal district court judge.
Miers has executive experience that Coulter does not have, but the position is SCOTUS associate justice is not an executive position.
On balance, comparing Miers to Coulter, I would tend to agree that from a conservative perspective and based partly on her younger age for purposes of length of tenure, Coulter would have been a better pick.
She'd never be confirmed. If in the unlikely event she was confirmed, somehow I think the other justices would eventually rip her hair out, duck tape her and throw her in a broom closet. I just can't see that working out very well.
Only she wouldn't have made it out of the Judiciary Committee. Coulter is adept at pissing everybody off, with a few exceptions.
I don't want a "conservative" activist as a judge any more than a liberal activist. And Coulter would be a conservative activist.
I would have seriously never suggested Coulter for the pick, but seeing as her background is Constitutional Law, we should have gone with Ann.
Seeing her take questions from Ted Kennedy would be worth the price of asmission.
I agree, Ann Coulter has the credentials to make an excellant Supreme Court justice. However, we need her right where she is because of the impact she can make on the culture through the access she gets in the media. I hope that access continues because Ann's dedication to conservative principles is what makes Ann so special.