Bush's Second Nomination

President Bush nominated his second Supreme Court Justice this morning. It was none other than Harriet Miers, a high-ranking lawyer from Texas. While not too much is known about her currently, Drudge Report states that in the 1980's she was a conservative Democrat who contributed money to the DNC and Gore's campaign, but later became a Republican. She is, so far, considered to be a "conservative" justice. Breitbart.com reported, "As president of the Texas State Bar in 1993, Harriet Miers urged the national American Bar Association to put the abortion issue to a referendum of the group's full membership. She questioned at the time whether the ABA should 'be trying to speak for the entire legal community' on an issue that she said 'has brought on tremendous divisiveness' within the ABA."

Does this mean she's going to have a harder time getting through the Senate than Roberts did? Probably. But the upside (or downside, depending on how you look at it) is that she has never been a judge before. You don't have to be a judge to get on the Supreme Court... so in that sense, the Senate will have little in the ways of "past rulings" to argue with her on.

Vice President Dick Cheney was on the Rush Limbaugh program today speaking about the President's decision to pick Miers. For the full interview Click here. On the other side of things, Republican editor for the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, slammed the decision in an article that appeared on Yahoo News