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October 03, 2005
Bush taps Harriet Miers for SCOTUS
President Bush has nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the US Supreme Court to replace retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Thoughts from bigger guns:
NBC's Today Show, however, just opined that she has no paper trail, and that may be the point. She vetted Roberts and other potential nominees for Bush, so that gives some indication. Sen. Schumer essentially said she was an unknown. She should have papers produced in the White House, but they can claim executive privilege as to some, if not all.
Also, half of all Supreme Court nominees had no prior judicial experience. Being a real lawyer, however, would be a help.
Prof. Jonathan Turley of Georgetown Law School just said that she was a bad appointee since being a member of the Dallas City Council for one term and running the Texas lottery hardly qualifies someone for the Supreme Court.
I see another Michael Brown in the making here. "Advise and consent"?
quoting John Podhertz of National Review from last week:
I am going to assume that this is a classic Bush head-fake gambit. If I'm wrong, I will spend the weekend banging my head against a concrete wall. This is the Supreme Court we're talking about! It's not a job for a political functionary!
Scott at MyDD:
The news is out this morning that Bush has decided on White House Counsel Harriet Miers to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court. It's notable that Miers has never served as a judge, so she has even less of a record than John Roberts.
We've got a lot to learn about SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers. To hear the White House tell us, "With her distinguished career and extensive community involvement, Ms. Miers would bring a wealth of personal experience and diversity to the Supreme Court."
Diversity. Sure she does. In fact, she gives money to Republicans *and* Democrats.[Miers donated to the campaigns of Al Gore for President and Lloyd Bentsen for Senator, which cracks me up to no end--Carla]
Harriet Miers, that is. I'm sure that she is a capable lawyer and a loyal aide to President Bush. But the bottom line is that he had a number of great candidates to choose from, and instead of picking one of them--Luttig, McConnell, Brown, or a number of others--he nominated someone whose only obvious qualification is her relationship with him.
And...the Washington Post has Miers' profile.
Posted by Carla at October 3, 2005 07:00 AM
