"Note the way she splits the infinitive with a couple of words, and then proceeds to split another infinitive with no less than twelve words. But apparently that second split infinitive bothered her at some unconscious level, so she used the word "to" twice, thus commiting a grammatical solecisim, "or to . . . to decide." "
I write a lot, but I am an engineer and write "by ear" rather than by grammatical rule. So thank you for the analysis because what I'm hearing is just so awful that I thought I was going nuts.
But of course, you don't have to think to be on the Supreme Court, your clerks do all the writing.
There's also that famous phrase "individual women's" in the same sentence.
I've never had a fetish about grammar, but I have to say that Miers is a really atrocious stylist. Trying to figure out exactly what she is saying is like wading through mud.