Mixed emotions on the Miers withdrawal

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At Harriet Miers' request, President Bush has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court.

I have mixed emotions about this. On one hand, Mr. Bush could surely have found a better nominee in the first place. On the other, I'm sorry to see the wholly unjustified paranoia and sometimes outright elitism of the extremist wing of the conservative movement get its way.

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Anonymous said…
I totally agree with your view on this. Since when did conservatives start taking elitist views? I thought that was only the liberals! It's not very becoming on either side!
10/27/2005 09:59:00 PM
Anonymous said…
I guess I don't see why it's a problem to insist on top-drawer constitutional law qualifications for a justice on the US Supreme Court. If that's "elitism," then it's the right kind--the same kind used to fill baseball rosters.
11/02/2005 12:56:00 PM
Anonymous said…
But sometimes phenoms come out of nowhere and become rookies of the year with no particular heralding. And sometimes Supreme Court justices turn out to be pretty good Supreme Court justices despite being similarly unheralded. A guy by the name of Rehnquist, for example- who, like Miers, was never a judge before being named to the Supreme Court.

Hey. When people cite the fact that she went to Southern Methodist rather than Yale or Harvard, that's elitism.

Mind you, I wouldn't have appointed her. I just regret that we never gave her the chance to show how sharp a constitutional scholar she is. The hard Right ganged up on her long before the first hearing was held- and that's a shame.
11/02/2005 08:12:00 PM
Anonymous said…
If she'd been involved in constitutional law at all previously, and made a reputation at that, no one would have cared what law school she went to.
11/02/2005 08:46:00 PM
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