Miers nomination?

[Stephen L. Wasby]

Having stayed on the sidelines in this matter, I am now inclined to ask something that has been troubling me for some time: Is it possible that we are heading (assuming confirmation) for another Charles Evans Whittaker, completely out of his (her) element?
    Steve Wasby
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Douglas Laycock 
  To: CONLAWPROF at lists.ucla.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:58 PM
  Subject: Miers nomination?


      I have been in the middle on the Miers nomination, tending to the view that she was seriously unprepared but perhaps no more so than lots of other nominees, some of whom had been in over their heads and some of whom became pretty decent Justices.

      Against that background, the David Brooks column in this morning's New York Times is devastating.  He reviews and quotes from her monthly columns as President of the State Bar of Texas.  Those columns are an admittedly difficult genre:  a column must be written each month whether or not one has anything to say.  But what she wrote appears to be wordy, rambling, hard-to-read formulations of the most obvious cliched ideas.  


  Douglas Laycock
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