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But Tribe said that Bush's attempt to reassure supporters of Miers' conservative bona fides should actually inspire worry—and for non-ideological reasons.
If a Supreme Court nomination is the defining moment of a presidency, the nomination of Harriet Miers, White House legal counsel and previously Bush’s personal lawyer, confirms that the Bush administration has abandoned any attempt at vigorously or seriously advocating a coherent conservative philosophy.
With the nomination of Miers, whose primary distinction is her loyalty to Bush, it is time to recognize that, in the words of Lionel Trilling, the Republican Party’s pseudo-conservatism has been reduced to only a series of “irritable mental gestures which seek to...
Miers was apparently chosen because of her loyalty to the administration and her nonexistent judicial paper trail, which frees her from a Scalia-esque fiery debate over judicial philosophy during the confirmation process. Perhaps Miers has a well thought out constructionist judicial philosophy; perhaps she is a staunch conservative. This...
This administration was willing to wade through hell and high water for the Bolton nomination because of personal friendship (and, one suspects, just to spite the rest of the world) but has flinched from every actual ideological conflict. Bush has gone five years without casting a veto and caved on...