Well isn’t this interesting. I have been briefly reading all of the posts at NRO, Michelle
Malkin, Red State and others all week about the nomination of Julie Myers nomination
to Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Well Orin Kerr of The Volokh Conspiracy has some
very good rebuttal to it all and is well worth the read.
In the last week, Michelle Malkin, Red State, the National Review, and many other
conservative blogs and bloggers have harshly criticized the nomination of Julie L.
Myers to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(aka ICE). The basic theme of the criticism is that Myers is a political crony: she’s
only 36, she’s the niece of the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
her husband is Michael Chertoff’s chief of staff. Someone who has used her connections
to get such a important job shouldn’t be confirmed, the thinking goes.
Go there for the rest of the story and all of the relevant links.