PrintOctober 13, 2005
Itching for a fight
Rarely has there been an event as fractious for the GOP as President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to be Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Leading conservative pundits and analysts have been falling over themselves to see who could issue the most damning public condemnation of the President's move:
'...at best an error, at worst a disaster...'—William Kristol;
'...If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke...' —Charles Krauthammer;
'It is not important that she be confirmed because there is no evidence that she is among the leading lights of American jurisprudence...'—George Will.
The reasons for their (and others') doubts and disappointment with the President's pick have been well documented and they fall into two broad categories:
1. Miers is not truly qualified from a background and educational standpoint to be on the Supreme Court.
2. Her lack of a documented...(Read Full Article)
