Harriet Miers

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

And, she's never been a judge before? This is the SUPREME COURT. Maybe we have a long history of appointing successful supreme court judges that have no experience. Who knows. But, it just seems wrong.

As Bush carefully pointed out in his nominating speech, 35 past Supreme Court justices had no prior judicial experience before being confirmed to the high court, including the recently-deceased Chief Justice William Renquist.

Otherwise, I would agree that - on its face - zero time on the bench would automatically disqualify you for consideration to serve on the Supreme Court. Well, at least Miers' experience makes just-confirmed Justice Roberts 2-year tenure as a federal judge look like a wealth of judicial experience suitable to catapult him to Chief Justice of the Supremes.


But yeah, this is cronyism of the worst and laziest kind ... particularly troubling after the Michael Brown fiasco which, in turn, led to a stinging indictment in last week's Time Magazine of the other incompetent crony department heads that Bush has filled the federal government with.


Oh, and anyone who thinks of George Bush as one of the most brilliant men they've ever known is not qualified to water my lawn.