As I noted on the Open Slot thread, this is a bad pick. I'm resigned to the fact that whoever goes in will be a conservative but did it have to be a total Bush toady who was never judge?
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Several news reports about President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement have noted Miers's lack of judicial experience and her role as chairwoman of the scandal-plagued Texas Lottery Commission during Bush's time as Texas governor. Some have also reported her involvement in the Bush National Guard controversy.
But most of these reports have not connected possible ethical questions about Miers, or questions about her lack of judicial experience, to the broader political context surrounding her nomination. Miers's nomination comes at a time when Bush is under fire for putting unqualified but well-connected people -- such as former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown -- in high-level government positions, and when the Bush administration and the Republican Party are enmeshed in a lengthy list of ethics and legal controversies.
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