Given a choice between a justice who understands that the RTKABA is an indivdual right and one who peers into the penumbra of Saturn and hems and haws about it, I'll take the first one. That means Miers over Bork.
Ironic, isn't it? A man who couldn't get himself on the Court, calling her a disaster.
I only found out recently that Judge Bork doesn't interpret the Second Amendment as an individual right (yes, I must get out from under my rock more often), so I'm not much in charity with his views at the moment. I'll take someone with common sense for a change. Any number of us could make the right decisions on the USSC, so I have no problem with lack of judiciary experience or Ivy League parchment.
Why would Ms. Miers work hard to put conservative/originalists into the lower courts and then not want the same for the SCOTUS?
If Robert Bork were on the Supreme Court, would there ever have been a case in which he was the "swing" vote on a second Amendment case? I do not know how the Justice stack up on this one.
All the Republicans should vote down Miers.
They should force Bush to chose again.
I'd heard that Bork was wobbley on the RTKBA. Is that a fact? If it is, I wonder how on earth he came to such a position?
They have no idea where he stood on some important Constitutional issues. I know he was anti 2A and IIRC (I could be wrong) he wasn't too great on the 4thA either.
Even Sekulow, a Constitutional lawyer, says that Miers is going to make a fine judge; she is the president's council, and she works with the Constitution daily in that position.
When I hear someone who calls themselves conservative say things like: "I don't care if she is the best judge on the SC, and makes all the right decisions, she is still wrong for the Court because she is not who we chose to be on the Court" they lose all credibility. I start to think of them as idiots. And that is what Laura Ingraham did this week! She is a Valley Girl extraordinaire, and I do not know if I will listen to her again. What a disaster.
the truth is that Miers might vote to overturn Roe v Wade and thus abortion will be a question for the individual states, if Kennedy goes along. But she will be pro racial and sexual preferences--she took that position in the White House on the Michigan Grutter case.