[Cicero]

TortReformer, I disagree. It is good to have justices who are open to tort reform, since so many of them belong to the tort lawyers' club. But it's hardly enough to make her a strict conservative. She's good on this point, and has a real record; but she doesn't have a record on anything else.

AmericaUnited, you make an excellent case that she is a good business lawyer. I agree. That's what she's done all her life: work for the big guys in the establishment. Her last job has been to work hard and loyally for the Biggest Guy of all.

I have no quarrel with that, but it doesn't in the least show that she would be reliable on the other issues. At best it suggests that she would be a first-rate country club conservative.

[tet68]

At best it suggests that she would be a first-rate country club conservative.

Well, better that than a country club liberal.

All this bruhaha and she hasn't even appeared yet.

I love hearing all these folks who don't like corporations,
(not you.)
don't they realize that corporations are just small businesses that grew up?

All we can and must do, is wait and see what kind of
hearing she gets. GB is not the kind of man to bail
on a subordinate who he has put up for a higher position,
and I wouldn't respect him if he did.

[meema]

We already have a very good Justice who should be quite good on these type of problems.
Lets not forget the "hapless toad". When I heard from soon-to-be Chief Justice Roberts, that sold me.
Does anyone in their wildest dreams think that Ms. Miers can even think in those terms, much less write like that????

[AndyJackson]

That's what she's done all her life: work for the big guys in the establishment.

While working for one of the big guys. Her record does not give me confidence that she is serious about litigation reform, not reform that will limit the reach of attorneys into the pockets of the rest of us.