I Still Like Harriet Miers
After all I heard on the radio streams and read on all of the blogs today, I am still
liking Harriet Miers.
On the drive home today from work I was listening to Sean Hannity. He had on someone
I did not get the name of and that long tall skinny girl, whats her name, Ann Coulter.
They were both complaining that the President did not pick a known and proven conservative.
Well they had some good points but it still came down to, it was the Presidents decision
to make and he made it.
Then I heard this other good point on Rush Limbaugh. If the far left doesn’t like
her and the far right doesn’t like her, then maybe she is just about right. Of
course that is somewhat discredited when you think about whether her qualifications
make her a good fit for the job.
According to MSN
Encarta
The Constitution does not specify formal qualifications for membership on the
Supreme Court. From the beginning, though, justices have all been lawyers, and most
pursued legal and political careers before serving on the Court. Many justices served
as members of Congress, governors, or members of the Cabinet. One president, William
Howard Taft, was later appointed chief justice. Some justices came to the Court from
private law practice, and others were appointed from positions as law professors.
Many justices appointed in the second half of the 20th century had experience in the
United States courts of appeal and other lower courts. Only one justice, Charles Evans
Hughes, served on the Court twice. President Taft appointed Hughes, then governor
of New York, to the Court in 1910. Hughes gave up his Court seat in 1916 to run for
president, but he lost in a close race against Woodrow Wilson. In 1930 President Herbert
Hoover returned Hughes to the Court as chief justice.
So their you have it. Anyone can be a member of the Supreme Court. Getting
the President’s recommendation is a whole other thing.