Posted on 10/10/2005 12:33:51 PM PDT by Crackingham
Question: What does Harriet E. Miers, a highly successful lawyer, longtime member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas and confidant of the president of the United States, want more than anything else?
Answer: The approval of the faculty of Yale Law School.
Or at least that is the fear among conservatives. They worry that although Miers is believed to be a pro-life evangelical conservative, she -- like David Souter and Anthony Kennedy before her -- will be seduced by liberalism. As former Bush speechwriter David Frum noted after Miers was nominated, "The pressures on a Supreme Court justice to shift leftward are intense." Frum noted "the sweet little inducements -- the flattery, the invitations to conferences in Austria and Italy, the lectureships at Yale and Harvard -- that come to judges who soften and crumble."
Ah, yes, the sweet little inducements: Washington dinner parties, laudatory editorials from the nation's great liberal newspapers and, perhaps most important, praise from the smug savants back at dear old Yale or Harvard. Many leading lawyers never forget their roots in the Ivy League, where all-knowing professors throw laurels on judges who "get it" and scorn those who don't. Forget Austria: It takes a very strong (or very principled) constitution to do without that intellectual flattery.
But perhaps that makes Miers the perfect candidate. Perhaps it takes someone who did not go to Harvard or Yale and has never seemed to care. Miers went to law school at Southern Methodist University, which, although a well-respected institution, was unlikely to have been a bastion of progressive thought when she entered the law school in 1970.
As a result, she likely avoided the flaying of conservative justices that would have been tattooed in the minds of most members of today's Supreme Court.
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Merely an observation, you don't like? Too bad.
But while we are critiquing the debate why don't you stop lying. Truth tends to elevate the debate.
You know what's even stupider? Read the whole thread...there are maybe three or four posts of actual discussion and another 75 variations of "Well you're just a Bush-bashing liberal!" or "Oh yeah, well you're a koolaid drinking Bushbot, you are!" It's so pathetic. Thank God I am realizing just how pathetic, because now I am laughing about it instead of letting it get to me.
FWIW, I do not like the choice of Miers, and not because of anything that the calorically-challenged Ann Coulter has said. I worked my ass off as a precinct chair for the President's reelection because I knew SCOTUS was up for grabs. I fully expected a Scalia/Thomas. Miers isn't just in a different ballpark; she's playing a different sport. And this is no time for games, anyway.
I have to laugh...
What's up with that, anyway?
It's a very disappointing choice.
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And don't even get a subscription to National Review in your own name. Either buy it on the street or put the subscription in your siblings name.
OTR?
It's a vulgar reference....
Oh, shit. I had it on my clipboard and I used it as a bump. What the hell does it mean?
Um...similar to PMS.
She may be unlikely to 'evolve', but as Maxine Watersa (I think it was) would observe, she may just turn 360 degrees, you'll see!
Luttig, Brown, Owen, Alito, Wilkenson, McConnell, Gaza, Brown, et. al.
Thanks for the hyper link, but I believe I can scroll back to the post.
Ditto, I remain in shock at what I consider to be the absolute childish pettiness of some on our side.
I guess what amazes me about all of this is, and pardon me if I missed it from you earlier. But, did you or do you have the same feelings about Judge Roberts when he was nominated to be Chief Justice? The fact that his nomination passed with such apparent ease would make me think that he is as much of a moderate as Ms. Miers.
Don't post a picture of a Howler monkey, or any monkey, in this context again. Thank you, and I'm serious.
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