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With an even thinner paper trail than John Roberts', Harriet Miers has left both supporters and opponents guessing. To gauge her thinking on key legal issues, they are combing through everything from old bar-association newsletters to interviews with her fellow churchgoers. Here's a look at the scant evidence...
...fiendishly hard. Engaged once but never married. Plays a mean game of tennis. Takes lots of notes. Makes coffee for the Sunday school. Gave money to Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. Launched a women's-studies lecture series at her alma mater. In the absence of a paper trail, with almost no law-journal articles and relatively few case filings to scour, the fight came down to two main issues: competence and character. "Just shut up for a few minutes," advised Senator Lindsey Graham to the critics after he met with Miers on Capitol Hill. "Give the lady...
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, however, isn’t actually important. The issue is that she was nominated specifically to avoid an ideological argument, which is a sign of how Bush’s conservatism doesn’t have the courage of its convictions...
What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate. She has no judicial resume and hasn't left a long trail of noteworthy memos, briefs, oral argument transcripts or law journal articles...
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