For the record…
I oppose the Miers nomination. She doesn’t have the background in constitutional law, the conservative judicial philosophy, or (judging by the leaks coming out of Senatorial offices) even the knowledge of legal precedent to be the nominee of a Republican president. We can’t even count on her as a reliable conservative vote (which would be the wrong reason to support her nomination, regardless) because we just don’t know if she’d be that reliable, or even on which issues she’s a conservative. A few days ago Glenn Reynolds linked to a description of Miers as liberal on economic issues and conservative on social ones (she’s some kind of anti-libertarian, evidently), which is precisely backwards from what I, personally, want in a public official.
Maybe those truly are her views, maybe not. Maybe she’ll call on some hidden reservoirs of constitutional knowledge and become a great justice, mabye not. We just don’t know. All we do know is that she was chosen because George Bush knows her well, and that he thinks we should trust his choice. But now is not the time for limp-wristed, easy cronyism, and I frankly don’t trust the President on domestic issues. He is, after the, the same President that signed McCain-Feingold into law and supported the protection of marriage amendment.
Miers should withdraw, be withdrawn, or be voted down by the Senate.
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