The Miers Nomination

It is going to be amusing watching people step all over themselves to defend or condemn the nomination of Harriet Miers, about whom none of us know a damn thing.

Well, that is not exactly true. We know that President Bush has a pretty good grasp of what Ms. Miers, who has almost no paper trail and has never sat on any bench, believes. We know that the president made the daffy assertion that Ms. Miers will not "legislate from the bench" when we know that the three most conservative justices on the Supreme Court have voted to overturn Congressional legislation far more often than any other judges -- legislating from the bench indeed. We know that she will more than likely pursue the reticent approach that worked well for Chief Justice Roberts. The difference is that absent even the relatively scant record that Roberts had left, such reticence should simply not be allowed. My assumption is that this is Bush's stealth candidate.

That said, let's not hyperventilate quite yet. We do not know enough to write and speak with certitude about the possibly-future-Justice Miers.