IT HAS NOW BEEN ALMOST TWO WEEKS since George W. Bush touched off a conservative civil war by nominating his White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court. Miers, who has worked with Bush for over a decade, received the appointment based, we’re assured, on the confidence the president has in his attorney.
Part of the reaction to Miers’s nomination comes from bewilderment as to why Bush selected Miers ahead of a talented field of well-known and well-respected conservative jurists, legal scholars, and practitioners. While backers of the Miers nomination point to her work as managing partner of a prominent law firms in Texas and her pioneering position as the first woman to head the Texas Bar Association. And that’s about all we’re getting from the White House
