[[In addition to being a free market capitalist and a conservative, I am also an American who understands that the role of the judiciary is not to make law!]]
Who said anything about making law ? The judiciary's role is also to prevent the Congress or President from passing unconstitutional laws, that is their check in the balance of powers. That checking power can be abused (i.e. the judges who have blocked partial birth abortion laws), but to remove that power would give the Congress unlimited power over the people. If you notice, I said 'limit', not remove, only an anarchist would believe that no regulation is ever necessary. But the power to regulate is a power that is easily abused, as the democrats have so well demonstrated with their frequent socialist mantra of 'for the common good'.
So you honestly believe that a corporate advocate is the right background for someone to limit government? Undue corporate influence in government is highly responsible for things like the byzantine tax structure and illegal immigration. I don't want someone who will support those things and I don't have any confidence that Miers will be the type of person to roll back the usurpations of government. We expected that from the person who nominated her, and got the opposite.