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Friday, October 21, 2005

The Virtues of the Miers Nomination

Marty Lederman

Professor William Stuntz has a new essay in the New Republic in which he identifies at least two upsides of the Miers nomination:

1. She's (probably) more skilled than was Chief Justice Burger. (Burger, of course, is one of the two Justices (along with Holmes) who Miers herself most admires -- well, him or Earl Warren, anyway.)

2. As with Bush 41's selection of Dan Quayle, Miers's nomination -- and the resulting firestorm -- will serve as an object lesson for future Presidents about how not to choose a Supreme Court nominee.

Comments:

Warren Burger was a good judge whatever you may think of his views on the Constitution. Read some of his opinion when he was on the D.C. Circuit.
 

is there any question that the first President Bush would choose a different running mate if he had a chance to do it again?

Minor point, but didn't Bush I have a second chance to pick a running mate, and didn't he pick Quayle again?
 

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