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October 26, 2005

Miers Roundup

SMU law professor Beth Thornburg in the Dallas Morning News, "If she follows her lifelong pattern, [Miers] will bond with and start deferring to the most appealing powerful male on the court."
You can see the first TV spot from Americans for Better Justice here.
The Washington Post mines speeches Miers made in the 90's for clues about who she is.
Most sensational news of the day: the New York Times reports that Republican Senators are expressing faint anxiety about Miers. One can almost see the wincing. The ending is most damning:
Asked if the debate had become "one-sided," with too few defending Ms. Miers, Senator Sessions, the Alabama Republican, struggled for words, then pushed a button for a nearby elevator in the Capitol building and told an aide, "Get me out of here."
The Seattle Times finds Miers unqualified.
SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston has an elegant piece on the Krauthammer Factor. (hat tip: Josh)
Reports that the WH is going to try for Miers v 4.0 soon, which may include a speech by the mystery woman herself.
Jack Kelly:
But it is one thing to give the president the benefit of the doubt in the absence of evidence, another to continue giving him that benefit in the face of evidence.
If Ms. Miers were as smart and as conservative as Mr. Bush said she was, criticism should have abated as we learned more about her. It hasn't worked out that way.
Radley Balko looks at more of Miers' writing, "It reeks of a dumb person writing to impress smart people."
Virginia Postrel's complete opposition to Miers in one post.
Paul Zummo fisks Hugh Hewitt.
Two good pieces on Miers and recusals from PoliPundit and The American Prowler.
Pejman Yousefzadeh is off the fence, saying waiting for the hearings is an unreasonable position. Read it if you find yourself also playing the waiting game.

Posted by Zach Wendling at October 26, 2005 01:02 PM

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I support the Miers nomination for a couple reasons. First, I think the evolution of her opinions is interesting. Second, can you imagine what type of person it would take to make the hard-right happy?

http://middleamericachronicle.blogspot.com/2005/10/searching-for-answers-about-harriet.html

Posted by: Chris at October 26, 2005 06:43 PM | permalink

can you imagine what type of person it would take to make the hard-right happy?

Yeah, it's someone like J. Michael Luttig, and that'd be splendid.

Posted by: Joshua Claybourn at October 26, 2005 09:15 PM | permalink

I wonder how the hard right would have reacted to my two favorite picks for the court, Richard Epstein and Randy Barnett.

(And hey, we might even be able to agree on Janice Rogers Brown...)

Posted by: Jason Kuznicki at October 26, 2005 10:47 PM | permalink

October 26, 2005

Miers Roundup

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