Posted on 10/21/2005 9:23:08 PM PDT by Racehorse
. . . the group . . . includes Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott; Raul Gonzalez . . . James Baker . . . and Eugene Cook . . .
Former Chief Justice Tom . . . Phillips, Hill and Joe Greenhill, another former chief justice . . . sent a joint letter on Oct. 14 to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Miers.
"We feel confident that we know what it takes to be a justice -- Harriet Miers exceeds that mark," the trio of justices wrote in the letter.
[. . .]
"I've known her as president of the State Bar. I think she's able and competent, and they attack her by saying she doesn't understand constitutional law," says Pope, now retired in Austin. "I think maybe the whole court would benefit to have somebody who's actually been trying those cases and trying them before a jury."
Phillips . . . says Miers is well-qualified because of her experience in the courtroom, her stint in firm management and her government service. He gives short shrift to arguments that she's unqualified, because she has not been a judge, or because she went to law school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
"These are all make-weight arguments, because somebody is mad about something," Phillips says.
[ . . . ]
"It's necessary because there are a whole lot of people who don't know Harriet Miers who decided to dump on her as unqualified, as not a serious thinker or too obsessed with detail," says Phillips. "I don't think it would be necessary if people were behaving themselves up there."
Enoch notes, "Apparently nobody hears it unless you go to D.C. to say it."
"It's a sad commentary on what the process has become," says Gonzalez.
(Excerpt) Read more at law.com ...
"We Love Miers and So Should You"
Okay.
LOL, I can hear the Highland Park/University Park elite screaming now. How dare they look down on an SMU law degree!:)
So who are these people? Why should we care what they think any more than Laurence Tribe or Alan Dershowitz?
Hello lied the lawyers!
How She Slipped Through Harriet Miers's nomination resulted from a failed vetting process.
Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
"There's a standard vetting process that we go through with all nominees."--White House spokesman Scott McClellan
"The president is very, very confident in his judgments about people, and he likes to reward loyalty."--Brad Berenson, an associate White House counsel in the first Bush term
The skepticism is not abating. Back home, the Liberty Legal Institute, the only conservative legal foundation in Texas, has so far declined to endorse her.
*As far as I know, the Liberty Legal Institute hasn't supported her publicly. That ain't cool.
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