"Given what the best and the brightest lawyers have done to the Constitution of the United States in the past 65 years, I'd have to think long and hard about that one if the brain surgeons had laid waste to a number of brains in the same manner the geniuses have laid waste to the constitution."Kudos to you!
This is absolutely the most apt observation anyone has made during the week following the Miers nomination!
There are American citizens who have never been to law school, but who have devoted themselves to a study of:
- the writings of America's Founders;
- the debates of the Constitutional Convention and in the States;
- THE FEDERALIST;
- the newspapers and sermons of the period in which the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were framed;
- the wisdom literature of the ages and the writings which influenced the Founders' understanding;
- histories of civilizations preceding ours;
- opinions and decisions handed down by the Court since its inception.
Some of you may be familiar with some of those citizens who have loved the ideas of liberty enough to immerse themselves in a study of those ideas, not because they had to, but because they wanted to.
If you are, then you know that they, if named to the Supreme Court, would bring a level of understanding and devotion that would exceed that of most lawyers and judges alive today, simply because most law schools have not required such intense study of the ideas and principles underlying our liberty.
None of them would meet the standards being cited by the "talking heads" who have come out of the woodwork on this one, however.
here are American citizens who have never been to law school, but who have devoted themselves to a study of: - the writings of America's Founders; - the debates of the Constitutional Convention and in the States; - THE FEDERALIST; - the newspapers and sermons of the period in which the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were framed; - the wisdom literature of the ages and the writings which influenced the Founders' understanding; - histories of civilizations preceding ours; - opinions and decisions handed down by the Court since its inception. Some of you may be familiar with some of those citizens who have loved the ideas of liberty enough to immerse themselves in a study of those ideas, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. If you are, then you know that they, if named to the Supreme Court, would bring a level of understanding and devotion that would exceed that of most lawyers and judges alive today, simply because most law schools have not required such intense study of the ideas and principles underlying our liberty. here are American citizens who have never been to law school, but who have devoted themselves to a study of: - the writings of America's Founders; - the debates of the Constitutional Convention and in the States; - THE FEDERALIST; - the newspapers and sermons of the period in which the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were framed; - the wisdom literature of the ages and the writings which influenced the Founders' understanding; - histories of civilizations preceding ours; - opinions and decisions handed down by the Court since its inception. Some of you may be familiar with some of those citizens who have loved the ideas of liberty enough to immerse themselves in a study of those ideas, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. If you are, then you know that they, if named to the Supreme Court, would bring a level of understanding and devotion that would exceed that of most lawyers and judges alive today, simply because most law schools have not required such intense study of the ideas and principles underlying our liberty. And many of these folks have written brilliant scholarly treatises, articles for publication, editorials, etc. on this subject. Were such a person to be nominated, I could be, depending upon the circumstances, highly supportive. To the extent that we have a record, however, Ms Miers has done none of this.
"There are American citizens who have never been to law school, but who have devoted themselves to a study of:
- the writings of America's Founders;
- the debates of the Constitutional Convention and in the States;
- THE FEDERALIST;
- the newspapers and sermons of the period in which the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were framed;
- the wisdom literature of the ages and the writings which influenced the Founders' understanding;
- histories of civilizations preceding ours;
- opinions and decisions handed down by the Court since its inception."
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Sure there are people like that. What's it got to do with Miers?