Monday, October 03, 2005

New Supreme Court Nominee

President Bush named White House Counsel Harriet Miers to be his nominee to the US Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Miers, who has never been a judge, was the first woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar Association.

Her lack of a judicial record makes it difficult to determine know whether Miers would dramatically move the court to the right. White House officials, who revealed Bush's pick on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt the president, said Miers is conservative enough to satisfy the president's supporters and does not have a lengthy legal record that could embolden Democrats.
Look for liberal interest groups to start looking for the transcript of every rubber chicken dinner Miers ever spoke in front of to find something, anything, no matter how out-of-context or even outright distorted it has to be, to try and defeat this nominee.

The press releases have already been written. Now it's a matter of {insert name here} until they can find something on Miers.