Miers unlikely to 'evolve'

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 10/10/5 | Marvin and Peter Olasky

[Crackingham]

Question: What does Harriet E. Miers, a highly successful lawyer, longtime member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas and confidant of the president of the United States, want more than anything else?

Answer: The approval of the faculty of Yale Law School.

Or at least that is the fear among conservatives. They worry that although Miers is believed to be a pro-life evangelical conservative, she -- like David Souter and Anthony Kennedy before her -- will be seduced by liberalism. As former Bush speechwriter David Frum noted after Miers was nominated, "The pressures on a Supreme Court justice to shift leftward are intense." Frum noted "the sweet little inducements -- the flattery, the invitations to conferences in Austria and Italy, the lectureships at Yale and Harvard -- that come to judges who soften and crumble."

Ah, yes, the sweet little inducements: Washington dinner parties, laudatory editorials from the nation's great liberal newspapers and, perhaps most important, praise from the smug savants back at dear old Yale or Harvard. Many leading lawyers never forget their roots in the Ivy League, where all-knowing professors throw laurels on judges who "get it" and scorn those who don't. Forget Austria: It takes a very strong (or very principled) constitution to do without that intellectual flattery.

But perhaps that makes Miers the perfect candidate. Perhaps it takes someone who did not go to Harvard or Yale and has never seemed to care. Miers went to law school at Southern Methodist University, which, although a well-respected institution, was unlikely to have been a bastion of progressive thought when she entered the law school in 1970.

As a result, she likely avoided the flaying of conservative justices that would have been tattooed in the minds of most members of today's Supreme Court.

[Betaille]

Her entire career has been one of constantly evolving. See my tagline.

[justche]

let's see how long it takes the Bush/Miers bashers to get here....

[Rutles4Ever]

First!

[flashbunny]

Too late, you were in after a 'bush basher'...i.e. anyone that doesn't accept "trust me"

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Who exactly does or "did" the anti-Miers crowd want nominated instead?

[FastCoyote]

"let's see how long it takes the Bush/Miers bashers to get here...."

Oooops, we were beat here by the Bush/Meiers Koolaid drinking shills.

An awful lot of mindless party hacks have been here lately.

[justche]

It's one herd or another with some posters on here....

[Earthdweller]

"let's see how long it takes the Bush/Miers bashers to get here...."

All five of them?..I'm soooo scared!

[justche]

Now that was funny!

[dc-zoo]

The biggest Miers "basher" beat you by one second.

[flashbunny]

" All five of them?..I'm soooo scared!"

Yeah...and I've noticed the big pitcher of koolaid isn't exactly shared by more than a couple dozen posters.

They just make up for it with volume.

[ez]

No kidding...W. said that last week. Why does it take so long for everyone to realize the onvious?

[ez]

...obvious.

[TSchmereL]

There was a list.

But as for me, I liked Janice Rogers Brown.

[Mike Darancette]

Maybe it will take someone who will look to the Founding Documents in sculpting decisions. Not someone who believes that their stellar legal education, legal career and legal friends will provide all the answers.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Well why not nominate Judge Bork again?

[TSchmereL]

He is too old.

[TSchmereL]

Bork was born in March of 1927. He is now over 78 years old.

[azhenfud]

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---

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