It's not like Thomas had much time on the bench to demonstrate otherwise.
Frankly, Thomas was a marginally qualified pick who was selected for other reasons. We ended up getting lucky with him. Even so it took several years for him to get his bearings.
He also went to a top ten law school. I don't think that's a prerequisite for the Court. The differences between top ten and a top fifty law school are fairly small save for networking opportunities. But Southern Methodist University?
It's a decent law school now. 40 years ago it wasn't quite that.
I know a guy who went to SMU. He was also accepted at Thomas Cooley, but didn't get in to Tulsa. I'm just sayin'...
And Miers is a marginally qualified pick who has been selected for other reasons. But, as long as she votes with Scalia and Thomas, I could care less what her "scholarship" produces. I'm sick to death of the American bar lecturing to me for my own good.
He went to a top 1 law school.
Sure it was, it was just harder at that time for women like Miers to become lawyers. You can live in 1965, but the fact remains, it's 2005.