"It is rather troubling that in the last two days, all we have heard from the WH is that we should (a) focus on her role as a woman and (b) focus on her religion.
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Sadly, there's little else to know. She's not a Constitutional scholar, so she doesn't have a paper trail that shows her to be an originalist or a strict constructionist or any other sort of constitutionalist. We don't know.
She practiced business law, primarily. While business law issues come up occasionally at the SCOTUS, they don't make up much of the calendar.
She's an adminstrator, primarily, in her career, which has been quite successful.
So, all President Bush has is her success at breaking through barriers for women and a hint that her religious beliefs will make her likely to overturn Roe v. Wade. There's nothing else to say, really.
Sadly, Miers is simply not qualified to be a SCOTUS justice. That requires some background in constitutional law, in my opinion, whether in front of the court, as in Robert's case, or on the federal bench. She has none of this.
This is an important and powerful position. We should be looking for the very best qualified people to fill it. Guesswork just won't do.
He should withdraw her nomination and pick a qualified judge (and there are dozens of qualified women judges if that's what he wants).
Better to take some humiliation now than more letter when Miers is voted down.