THERE HAS BEEN some rather harsh treatment in the media of George W. Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers. It has been said that she is an underqualified crony of Bush’s, and that as a middling corporate lawyer, with no experience on the bench, she has never offered much in the way of opinions.

This is grossly unfair. According to a stack of documents released this week by the State of Texas, Miers has delivered some thundering dictums in her various legal and paralegal roles as partner in a Dallas law firm and later chairman of the Texas State Lottery Commission.