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October 23, 2005
More bad news for Miers
Is the end near for the Miers debacle? As Chuck Schumer suggests perhaps Harriet Miers' problems are crystalizing, "Blanton" at Red State asks whether Hugh Hewitt's support for Miers has"jumped the shark":
Hugh's support seems to be, beyond trusting the President, based on the fact that people who know MIers say she'll be right on life, she'll have a conservative judicial philosophy, and that she is personally conservative and evangelical. This makes no sense. If Miers is personally supportive of affirmative action, Hugh believes that will not affect her judicial philosophy. But, because we're told Miers is personally conservative, Hugh believes her judicial philosophy will be just what we want. I dare not even contemplate the pains Hugh will go through to explain how personal support of affirmative action and a conservative judicial philosophy mess.
We may at last be approaching denouement, if not closure. In fact, "closure" may one day be Miers' personally but the bastardization her nomination effected on the conservative movement will linger well beyond this Bush administration, and perhaps much longer. The White House's chaotic defense of a third-tier candidate who seemed better suited to run a high school bake sale than sit on the Supreme Court - which one hopes scraped bottom when Christianity was offered in support of her jurist creds - will have rendered almost laughable a central piece of federalist constitutionalism: that a judge's personal beliefs and politics should have no bearing on decision-making, and thus fitness for the bench.
Posted by bill at October 23, 2005 08:09 PM
