My kinda judge!!
/snicker
I guess everyone here who has given up on BUSH will just have to give up on Scalia.
After all he is NOT really a conservative in the mold of Thomas, now is he?
For example....
"Without mentioning the Bush nominee by name, the conservative legal icon (Scalia) said that the High Court needed someone who had never served as a judge to take the place of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist."
Scalia is therefore talking about John Roberts and defending his position as CJ on the SC -- not Harriet Miers. This appears to be a take on Roberts, not Miers.
BUMP to watch the meltdown if the screamers are up this morning...
There is no way this woman is not qualified. What they teach you in law school, essentially, is what an appellate judge does. You read hundreds of cases, and discuss what they mean and the logic behind them.
So every graduate of law school really has the training to be an appellate judge, although possibly not the temperament. And it's really not something that you get better at with experience. In fact, if anything it's the opposite. The longer you sit on the bench, the more you come to think that it's your opinion that's important, and not the legislature's.
It looks like all the grumblers over Miers will have a new voice to contend with, a voice that's the icon of conservatism. What will Ann Coulter do now? Yikes!
My kinda judge!!
Excellent
Finally! A reasoned voice speaks.
This is the first thing I have heard that makes me feel a bit better about Miers. I have the greatest respect for Scalia. If she's ok with him, that means a lot.
If we wanted his opinion, we'd ask the pundits.
Waiting for the Meirs' bashers to call Scalia a RINO/neo-con/Bush crony.
Miers is not of this caliber. Not even close.
Strange Question: Is there any law against conferring with sitting conservative judges regarding nominations?
You seriously think he would say anything negative about her if he thought he was going to have to work with her for the rest of his time on the bench?
It sounds to me as if this interview was taped between Rehnquist's death and Bush's announcement that he would nominate Roberts for the CJ spot instead of O'Connor's seat.
That's it, throw Scalia off the boat. He's revealed hmself as just another liberal. No compromise for us true conservatives.
/extremely heavy sarcasm
Scalias comments here are stretched so tight to make them mean what they don't say they are almost a musical instrument..
Uh-oh. :oD
My, my my... all of the people who are real thinkers and not hysterical, knee-jerk shriekers think Miers will do just fine.