Harriet Miers

Apparently Harriet Miers was asked to redo her questionaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Supposedly her responses were "inadequate", "insufficient", and "insulting", according to articles in both CNN and the New York Times.

My thoughts: We don't really how John Roberts is going to turn out as a Supreme Court Justice since he was sort of vague during the hearings and his track record so far as a judge does not have many clues as how he would vote on very polarizing issues, but at least we felt that he was competent. With Harriet Miers I'm not so sure. All I know about her is that she's a "pitbull in size 6 shoes" and that she's a born-again, devout Christian (It seems as though the White House was constantly mentioning her religion to prevent any real questions from being asked about her legal background). From the articles I read about her, she seems extremely loyal to President Bush, can't write very well (David Brooks Op-Ed), forgot to pay her bar dues in Washington D.C. so her law license was temporarily suspended (Maureen Dowd Op-Ed), and apparently gave Arlen Specter the impression that she needs a crash course in constitutional law. The more I hear about Harriet Miers the more I begin to doubt her qualifications for the job. If she cannot write a thorough response for the Senate Judiciary Committee, either she does not take the job very seriously or is very incompetent. I like the idea of having more women (and minorities) on the Supreme Court since it was dominated by men in the past, however it seems as all Bush was looking for when he picked Harriet Miers was a woman and a loyalty vote on the bench. That is really an insult to women everywhere and seriously undermines the goal of diversity.