I've just gotten finished watching brief clips on the news from various liberals/Democrats commenting on the withdrawl of Harriet Miers for consideration for the Supreme Court. Ralph Neas, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer all went before cameras to bemoan Miers' fate at the hands of the "extreme right wing." They demonstrated their political […]
The strategy/excuse suggested last week by Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer appears to have been successful. President Bush, at Harriet Miers request, has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court -- supposedly due to the fact that the White House will (rightly) refuse to release documents she's worked on while she was White House counsel. […]
I'm still in wait-and-see mode on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers -- though I'm skeptical/leaning against right now. However, Dale Franks over at QandO has answered a series of questions from talk radio host Hugh Hewitt and one of Franks' answers is right on target with where the Supreme Court has gone wrong. Franks identifies […]
There's been some buzz hither and yon about Washington Post columnist George F. Will's column due out this Sunday. It's strictly embargoed, so I can't link to it or post it just yet, but it's a devastating critique of the Harriet Miers nomination. I won't attempt to steal Will's thunder, but he did make one […]
A Spanish judge has issued an arrest warrant for three American soldiers who mistakenly killed a couple of Spanish journalists using a tank in the middle of a war. A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish […]
I haven't been one those people who is obsessing over President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, mainly because there's been next to nothing to comment on. The vast majority of the reporting has been horserace articles on who opposes her, who supports her, but there's been very little about Miers herself. Even […]
Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a member of the Judicial Council which rules on cases of misconduct by judges, demonstrates why too many judges can't be trusted with power. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about Judge Kozinski, I'm talking about district court Judge Manuel Real first and […]
So, I sent an e-mail to Gail Collins, editorial page editor of The New York Times requesting corrections earlier this week. My e-mail: Ms. Collins, in light of your Sunday "Letter from the editor" reflecting your committment to accuracy on the editorial pages, I thought I would bring one error -- committed twice -- to […]
I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about the president's nomination of Harriet Miers to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. I'm certainly not excited by her nomination, probably because Democrats aren't going ape. Miers, if confirmed, may turn out to be a good justice. (Yes, by "good" I mean "votes the way I […]
OK, my biggest complaint thus far about the president's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is the fact that there should be a "y" somewhere in her last name. The thing that worries me most about Miers is what her judicial philosophy really is and how "deeply-held" it is. I like my Constitution dead […]