Harriet Miers is just a glorified personal attorney and now she is going to be placed on the most powerful court in this country ? Is she an expert on constitutional law (and for the information of the anti-"snobbery" types this is an expert position. It requires an actual knowledge base of every constitutional decision ever made. This isn't your local personal injury lawyer.) ?
The legal profession has objective standards of excellence, like the medical profession or academia or the military. These are hierarchical lifer institutions.
Glorified personal attorney? You know what, you epitomize what is wrong with your side in this debate.
It is fair to discuss whether her background is suitable for the court.
But you are being a world-class Klymer by calling her a "glorified personal attorney."
She has represented major corporate clients in court. She has had briefs submitted to the Texas Supreme Court and SCOTUS that won decisions without presenting verbal arguments.
And she has been White House Attorney and the attorney for a man who was both a governor and a president.
So knock off the denigration of an accomplished woman. Unless you can't help being such a jerk.
Bull-tweed. What do you think they have clerks and research staff and librarians for? Supreme Court judges have their staffs prepare briefs and outlines and do the research for them. They eventually read some or most of this, but it would be absurd to think every judge knows every decision the Court (and all the circuit courts as well) have ever made. You think 85 year-old demented John Stevens knows every decision ever made? He can hardly find his way to his potty chair.