Comments | feminist: Harriet Miers nominated to replace O'Connor

odd_duck_out in feminist

Harriet Miers nominated to replace O'Connor

Oct 03, 2005 08:59

Bush has nominated Harriet Miers to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Thoughts?

I am personally not very pleased.

supreme court of the united states, politics north america

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gr8snood October 3 2005, 16:45:51 UTC

I guess appointing a man with no disaster experience as head of FEMA and then watching Katrina become a disaster within a disaster taught Bush nothing. Let's just appoint people because we like them and they agree with everything we say, not because they have the skills or experience necessary for the actual job. :) I love Jon and I can't wait to see what he has to say about this! I'm still laughing about "riggy, what did they do to you, riggy?" LOL!

skate97 October 3 2005, 18:11:04 UTC

ahahahaha, ditto. and i *love* his bush laugh ;)

ladyceleste October 4 2005, 17:42:45 UTC

Riggy... hahaha, classic.

slytherinblack October 3 2005, 18:46:41 UTC

While clearly this woman is not the sort of person we want on the supreme court, I would like to pitch in to say that lack of judicial experience does not necessarily automatically make someone a crappy justice. It helps, but it doesn't have to be necessary. Other legal experience helps, for example. John Marshall, when appointed as the Chief Justice, was a) the youngest chief justice in US history b) had not been on any court (that I know of, anyway. He had been Adams' secretary of state prior to becoming chief justice) and c) was appointed directly as chief justice. He was one of the most brilliant chief justices in history, IMHO.

I don't believe Earl Warren was ever a judge before becoming Chief Justice either.

heartofkara October 3 2005, 18:57:26 UTC

Honestly, I hate to sound so pessimistic but did you really expect to be pleased with ANYONE that BUSH would pick?! The only good thing is that if someone he appoints changes their views and turns out to be a closeted liberal they are still there for life - this happened once to a governor who appointed a judge to a state supreme court and was shocked to see the way he REALLY was. I'm just hoping the senate grills any prospective judges really hard so we get someone decent.

odd_duck_out October 3 2005, 22:29:29 UTC

I didn't think Roberts was so bad, actually.

I think Bush can do a lot better than Miers. There's not-so-bad, and then there's really bad.

heartofkara October 4 2005, 00:41:24 UTC

True...

One Word neitherday October 3 2005, 21:53:40 UTC

cronyism

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xamses October 4 2005, 14:32:16 UTC

That's probably the idea. They're probably gearing up to pull some kind of bait and switch.

Could also be that, because Harry Reid is apparently quite fond of her, Bush figures the Democrats will let her slide by.