Would we be better off right now with Harriet Meirs on the Court and not John Roberts?

[bluestateguy]

Remember that Meirs was thrown overboard in 2005 because grassroots conservatives , fundamentalist Christians and most Republican senators were either opposed to her nomination or uncommittal. If anything, she probably would have got a lot of Democratic votes on the Senate floor.

Then of course, George W. Bush went with John Roberts. Rehnquist died, Roberts was nominated to the Chief Justiceship, and then we got Samuel Alito. Roberts is no Kennedy, but he does sometimes stray from the hard right triumvurate of Thomas Scalito.

I do, however, think that Meirs would be preferable to Alito. That point is harder to deny.

[Politicalboi]

1. It's too bad

We can't really face the fact Al Gore won 2000, and have ALL of Bush's shit undone due to fraud, including getting rid of the Robert's and Alito. Illegal Presidency= fraud over everything he did. Make him a comma in our history books.

[Skittles]

2. FYI it is spelled MIERS

[tritsofme]

3. Alito replaced Miers.

So there wasn't ever an opportunity that they would have served together.

Miers definitely could have been a wildcard on the court, presumably a reliable conservative, but with a record that thin, who knows?