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The most qualified person to gain a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is someone who's never been a judge.

Personally, I smell a trick. The Senate will dick around with this chick for a couple of weeks, Bush'll drop it --and the bomb-- by the end of October.

Comments

[ALAIN]

HER BIO DOESN'T INDICATE THAT SHE'S THE "FALL ON THE SWORD" TYPE.

[STO]

Certainly not the first lacking judge experience. Rehnquist was of a long line on non-judges.

[upyernoz]

well, it's not unprecidented to have a non-judge nominated for the court. chief justice earl warren's main qualification for the court was that he was governor of california (and he even was the one to order the evacuation and detention of japanese-americans during WW2)

i don't think he'll drop it. it has a precedent, so he'll claim picking someone outside the judiciary is another way of bringing "balance" to the court. it's also a nice convenient way of picking a loyalist who has no paper trail of judicial opinions to jeapardize her confirmation.

[Roxanne]

I'm of the school of thought that lifetime appointees should have some kind of demonstrated accumen for a job. Being a lawyer isn't the same as being a judge. Just like working a copy desk is not the same as being the Managing Editor of the Washington Post.

[Roxanne]

Or, and if you travel around the wingnutsphere this morning, you'll notice she has zero among them. No support with the base on this makes me think Bush is playing chess.

[Jennifer]

I'm with Roxanne. Something seems out of whack. A piece on NPR this morning pointed out the lack of support from the base. The more I think about it the more Roxanne makes sense - she should at least have "Judge" written on her resume.

[zoe kentucky]

I agree as well. This morning I had a what-the-huh?!? sort of reaction, she doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Frankly, she's pretty unremarkable for a seat on the highest court of the land. It just strikes me as sort of fishy and very underhanded.

I sort of hope Dems play this well-- so far Reid is showing signs that they might be able to kill her with kindness. While we know little about Miers I'd prefer her over Janice Rogers Brown. Brown is a scary, scary woman. (She's not just a conservative, she's a anarchistic freak.)A showdown over her would be as ugly as politics can get and I really don't want to see America go there.

[Scott Lemieux]

"Or, and if you travel around the wingnutsphere this morning, you'll notice she has zero among them. No support with the base on this makes me think Bush is playing chess."

But when it comes to standing on principle or supporting Bush, where will the base go? I think we all know the answer...

[NTodd]

The most qualified person to gain a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is someone who's never been a judge.

There is a good bit of precedent.

Personally, I smell a trick. The Senate will dick around with this chick for a couple of weeks, Bush'll drop it --and the bomb-- by the end of October.

Great thing is, you've got Dems embracing her and Rethugs musing about filibusters. I say Harry Reid's approach is the real head fake!

[NTodd]

The most qualified person to gain a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is someone who's never been a judge.

There is a good bit of precedent.

Personally, I smell a trick. The Senate will dick around with this chick for a couple of weeks, Bush'll drop it --and the bomb-- by the end of October.

Great thing is, you've got Dems embracing her and Rethugs musing about filibusters. I say Harry Reid's approach is the real head fake!