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10/22/2005

Althouse Opposes Miers Nomination

Filed under: Judiciary — Patterico @ 5:11 pm



On October 11, Hugh Hewitt wrote:

University of Wisconsin Professor of Law Ann Althouse has a very important post today, because it is the first “turning” post I have seen on Harriet Miers, proving that such “mellowing” is in fact possible, and from within the Academy.

I wonder if Hewitt will consider it important that Prof. Althouse today firmly came out against the Miers nomination, in a post titled I oppose the Miers nomination:

I have seen no evidence of the level of ability that we have an obligation to demand from a Supreme Court justice. This is not a time to be nice or to give an unknown a chance. It’s a lifetime appointment. President Bush made a terrible choice, and Miers did not decline. I was willing to wait for the hearings to make a final call, but the handling of the nomination has been so abysmal: the botched questionnaire, the bolstering with religion, the lack of any coherent defense in the face of weeks of criticism. It’s just too much! End it, already!

Over to you, Hugh . . .

7 Responses to “Althouse Opposes Miers Nomination”

  1. Hey, who besides Hugh is defending this? Not counting the “let’s wait” folks. Given Hugh’s “A” rating for Bush’s first debate, I wonder what it will take for him to throw in the towel. This “my president, right or wrong” thing is getting tiresome.

    Kevin Murphy (6a7945)

  2. Beldar is doing a better job than the WH.

    Where would the we be without them? The WH would have withdrawn HM weeks ago.

    And where would we be without our defense of mediocrity? We’d be a party with high standards.

    Kathy (59cee4)

  3. Let’s see. By my current count the NZ Bear site has the following: 60 opposed, 10 neutral, and 14 support. By the Delphi principle, it seems a bad choice.

    jd watson (e27eeb)

  4. “This ‘my president, right or wrong’ thing is getting tiresome.”

    Yet if he were 25 of 30 points higher in the polls, “the right’s television troubadours and op-ed bards would be describing Miers as Mother Teresa and Madame Curie combined.”

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/23/INGPIFACKQ1.DTL

    These right-wing critics, many intelligent and sophisticated, are guided by the French slogan “sauve qui peut,” which might roughly be translated as “stab the wounded.” If his reputation sinks, theirs might, too. Bush’s former friends treat him as not only a lame duck, but as a walking bucket of avian flu.

    steve (8f61f0)

  5. Very amusing.

    I had lots of anti-Miers posts before I wrote “Mellowing on Miers” and after, but all the links went to “Mellowing on Miers.” I guess all those other posts just weren’t “very important.”

    It’s nice of Hewitt and others to use positive reinforcement, but incredibly obvious in this case.

    Ann Althouse (77f8ba)

  6. Give us this day our daily Miers

    Last evening I noted that Hugh Hewitt, in his rebuttal to George Will's critique of the Miers nomination, raised several serious questions aimed at those of us who've expressed particular concern over the nominee's purported political po…

    protein wisdom (c0db44)


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