Today Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for Supreme Court Justice and President Bush accepted it. This news follows a week of Bush refusing to release any White House documents associated with Ms. Miers and conflicting reports on whether Miers does or does not support abortion (though this is a minor issue, the news media and both liberals and conservatives love to bring it up to get their bases frothing at the mouth). The biggest obstacle to her nomination is that many Senators saw her as one of Bush's cronies, who went to a second tier law school, hasn't had a stellar legal career, and is just not fit for the job. The title of this post is a reference to Robert Bork, who was nominated by Reagan and rejected by the Senate. I think this would have been Ms. Miers fate.
Sidebar: I wrote to both of my Senators expressing my concerns about Miers's dubious record. One of them, Senator Warner, basically replied that he knows Ms. Miers, she is qualified for the job, and gave the distinct impression that he is one of Bush's cronies.
At any rate, Miers doesn't seem like she really knew much about the Constitution so it's probably good that it ended this way, but we'll never know.
2 comments:
Miers is a very confusing person, but I wouldn't be surprised if she was a Bush cronie.
duh, she's a friend of the bushes. isn't she his lawyer or something? i don't know much about her, but i do know that she's not even a judge, so i have to admit that i'm glad she withdrew her nomination. funny how that with that statement, you'd never know if i was a democrat or conservative republican. not like i know where i stand politically, lol.
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