So Bush's legacy will be staffing the Supreme Court with second-rate justices.
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Emphasis added - such small details are important - something that the Bush White House totally lost in the screening process.
Bush has taken himself from "near great" to "lessor" on the Presidential rating scale, with these two SCOTUS appointments. These SCOTUS appointments are as sad as outrageous. Bush has been poorly served by his staff, and in fact, Miers was one of the principals. I feel she disqualified herself the moment she accepted Bush's nomination. She should have excused herself when the topic was first breeched if she were actually interested (and I saw reports about her as a possible candidate for over two weeks prior to the announcement). From an ethically perspective, she should have recommended a new counsel to lead the vetting process. Or, she should have immediately and publically squashed such rumors.
That Miers allowed herself to be selected while she was the lead advisor in the selection process was a huge conflict of interests. Nice woman, maybe a fellow conservative and Christian, but she failed the most important ethical test of her career when she ACCEPTED the nomination WHILE BEING PART of the nomination process. Her lapse in legal judgement (or her ambition) has demonstrated that she is UNQUALIFED for the job A new "packaging" job by the White House won't change this.
SFS
The Miers defenders are going to have to do some interesting contortions to defend this one.
Maybe they will begin recycling lib talking points from the Breyer nomination, although Breyer is probably to the right of Miers.
Does this mean I will have to pay more money.