The Wrong Pick

It seems as though Harriet Miers was definitely the wrong pick for the new justice of the SCOTUS.  She graduated from Southern Methodist University, hardly an ivy (or near ivy) league school.  The two other women to sit on the court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg (an awful justice) and Sandra Day O'Connor graduated from Harvard Law school and Stanford Law school respectively.  For a position as high as this, one should demand a top education instead of a law school that leads people to head lottery commissions, as Miers did in Texas. 

This nomination looks to be a kick back to a friend who has helped someone for years.  As White House Counsel, Miers was Bush's closest legal advisor and this nomination is an obvious award for loyalty.

What is most distressing is that nobody knows a thing about Ms. Miers.  Republicans are even attacking her credentials.  Bush should have looked to appoint someone in the tradition of Justice Thomas, the only person on the Supreme Court who receives respect from me.  John Roberts may be in that mold, but I would have much preferred to see Judge Alex Kozinski nominated.

I urge all my readers to write, email, and call their senators in opposition of the Miers nomination.

Yet Another Nomination

This morning, President Bush nominated Sandra Day O'Connors replacement, Harriet Miers. She doesn't any judicial background, leading some to believe that she is ill equipped for the job. She is definitely one of Bush's team. She holds the position of White House counsel, previously held by infamous people like John Dean. With all the talk of Bush appointing the nation's first hispanic justice, he has picked a white man and woman to become part of SCOTUS, though the demographics remain unchanged. Other than her lack of experience, I don't know enough about Ms. Miers to comment, although she's known as a pit-bull and is unmarried.

In other news, over the weekend some nutcase detonated himself at the University of Oklahoma during a football game. This is probably the most pathetic suicide bombing ever. Not only did he fail to kill anybody, but he looks like a total creep. Note: this is the first suicide bombing that I've seen make the front page that didn't involve a muslim, just an observation...