[alnick]

[jdm]

"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."

The above sentence would be just perfect if the phrase "Chief Justice William Rehnquist" was replaced with "Justice Sandra Day O'Connor". Otherwise, the above sentence implies that Miers is filling Rehnquist's shoes, in that she's going to be Chief Justice, which she's not.

The article is poorly worded -- that's all.