Harriet Miers and the Myth that Great Justices Must Be Former Judges from Elite Law Schools

Thank you for this post. Food for thought for anyone, let alone the Donner Party. ;)

LOL. Interesting that all those who want her defeated by the pubs insure that the next one will be worse.

Bush does not pick fights but has no trouble defeating those who pick fights with him. My guess is we are seeing the "in your face" segment of the conservative movement marginalizing themselves.

Bush will win this one since the "base" is actually not at play here, but the Internet babble is. Most pubs and evangelicals will go along with the knowledge that Bush values character above all else.

He also knows the terrible time any candidate will have in the current "body cavity" approach by both sides. We note the civility of the old system and disparage the other side for not adhering to it, but revel in the new one and become mirrors of what we despise.

I have a different take on the USSC (although I doubt it is supreme anything).

We have just accepted that lawyers are the best to put on the bench. I don't agree. Today's lawyers, IMO, spend their entire career attempting to bend, tweak, obfuscate, manipulate... etc, the law to get their client off or win their point. They are no longer satisfied with the main premise of our legal system that everyone is entitle to a fair trial. Fair trial does not mean winning.

Now you take these 'win at any cost" types and you place them on the bench for life and you get an endless stream of 5-4 decisions. How bright can these people be if they cannot understand the written words of a relatively short document?

If there is ambiguity maybe they can read the Federalist Papers which detail the reasons for just about everything in the Constitution.

A 5-4 decision tells me the USSC is filled will activist judges that are pushing their agenda and the Constitution be damned. Even when the 5 are on our side, I am dissatisfied that the decision was not decisive.

Show some respect. She was the Counsel to the President and the first female President of the Texas Bar.

"Ms. Miers, you have our respect. Now, please do your fellow citizens the favor of asking that your nomination be withdrawn so that someone who is qualified to sit on the United States Supreme Court may be nominated. Thank you."

Satisfied?

"Women deserve more than token representation on the Supreme Court..."

I already posted this thought, but I wanted to include this quote to clarify...
Call me crazy, but I always thought justices should be chosen by what kind of a judge they would be.

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