Borking Harriet Miers

[Earl Maltz]

Not really.  Her most impressive private sector qualification is rising to 
be the head of a major Dallas law firm.

At 03:23 PM 10/21/2005 -0400, Jeff Segal wrote:

>Among Bork's Wall Street Journal complaints about Miers is this:
>
>  "Ms. Miers was a bar association president (a nonqualification for anyone
>  familiar with the bureaucratic service that leads to such presidencies);"
>
>  I'm obviously an outsider here. Within my discipline, presidency of the
>  American Political Science Association is an extraordinary honor, and
>  somebody who earned that distinction  would almost certainly be
>  well-qualified for a relevant cabinet-level post.  But with all due
>  respect, the presidency of a state political science association, even a
>  large one, would mean far, far less.
>
>  So, Bork's comments notwithstanding, does it suggest much about Miers that
>  she was president of a state bar association?
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Jeff
>
>
>Jeffrey Segal
>Distinguished Professor and Chair
>Department of Political Science
>Stony Brook University
>Stony Brook, NY 11794
>phone 631-632-7662
>fax 631-632-4116
>jeffrey.segal at stonybrook.edu
>http://www.sunysb.edu/polsci/jsegal/
>
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