Who Is Harriet Miers?
The
official answer we hear is “we don't know” – from both sides of the
aisle in the Senate – to the concern, really, of everyone. Even
George Will is now openly concerned about the Miers appointment to the
point of opposition:
It
is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she
suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed
interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the
sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of
judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial
abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of
seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a
private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.
So – who will Harriet Miers be?
Will she
be pro-choice? Maybe, maybe not. That's the essence of the
tooth-gnashing going on at the moment, but we do know one thing about
Miers: she is a Bush loyalist, Texas Republican who will rule
consistently in favor of whatever business interest rules the day:
And
what, exactly, does business want? Overturning the New Deal? The
Constitution in Exile? The return of God to the public schools? The end
of affirmative action? Outlawing abortion once and for all? Squashing
gays and lesbians underfoot? None of these things. What business wants
is stability, comfort, predictability, and an agile, productive,
submissive and demobilized population. It wants a powerful executive
that can protect America's interests abroad. It wants a Congress freed
from federal judicial oversight that is able to dish out the pork,
jiggle the tax code and deregulate the economy according to its ever
shifting concerns and interests. And it wants a Supreme Court that will
give a pro-business President and a pro-business Congress a free hand,
a Court that will protect the rights of employers over employees,
advertisers over consumer groups, and corporations over
environmentalists.
It wants, in short, someone very much like Harriet Miers.
The
interests that promote people like Harriet Miers to such positions are
not the social interests – they're the interests of the
Wal-Marters that are for the dissolution of government oversight,
workplace safety regulation and union organization.
In other words, “a typical big business Republican”.
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The two main issues for me with Miers is 1) Bush nominated her and 2) she has ZERO judicial experience.
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