National Review: Bush Should Dump Miers
Posted on: Friday, 14 October 2005, 21:00 CDT
A leading conservative journal is calling for President Bush to withdraw his nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an editorial posted online Friday, the National Review listed a number of objections to the nomination -- concluding that there is very little evidence that Harriet Miers is a judicial conservative, and there are some warnings that she is not.
The magazine -- which Bush recently feted at the White House to mark its 50th anniversary -- noted that Miers is reported to have been a strong defender of racial preferences when they were being challenged before the Supreme Court, and said she has shown a tendency in her career to identify with local elites and establishments, to go along with prevailing ideas, and to avoid doing anything that might cause unpleasantness or rock the boat.
The editorial said Miers was not enough like Justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas -- the kind of justice this president led conservatives to expect. The National Review said it was concerned Miers might turn out to be more like the late Justice Harry Blackmun.
Sure he was a loyal Republican; but almost as soon as he arrived on the Court, he was transformed, said the magazine.
Source: United Press International
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