[TortReformer]

This is what we need to get the country on the right track. After much debate, I think that if Repbulicans focus on this, it will tip the balance for her confirmation.

[thoughtomator]

How will confirming her do a thing for tort reform? The legislature has to do that; the courts have no role in writing those laws.

[Cicero]

TortReformer, I disagree. It is good to have justices who are open to tort reform, since so many of them belong to the tort lawyers' club. But it's hardly enough to make her a strict conservative. She's good on this point, and has a real record; but she doesn't have a record on anything else.

AmericaUnited, you make an excellent case that she is a good business lawyer. I agree. That's what she's done all her life: work for the big guys in the establishment. Her last job has been to work hard and loyally for the Biggest Guy of all.

I have no quarrel with that, but it doesn't in the least show that she would be reliable on the other issues. At best it suggests that she would be a first-rate country club conservative.

[AndyJackson]

There are a number of sitting appeals court judges who have come out far more strongly in favor of litigation reform than Ms Miers ever has. In fact, her claim to fame was her appeal to George Bush to take the regulation of attorneys fees out of the hands of the legislature and leave it with the courts.

This woman is no legal reformer. She has never foregone a retainer to pursue a bad case.