Whoever Bush nominates next, I am glad Miers is out. [View All]

[More Than A Feeling]

Lets face it, this is a woman who simply could not do her homework, then turned it in at the last minute. Now, I have done the same thing more than I would care to remember, but I am in college and not nominated to the Supreme Court.

The reason the founders gave the Court lifetime appointments in the first place is that they worried that there would be such a small pool of worthy candidates, that getting rid of qualified ones via term limits would cause us to run out. Clearly, their first requirement was competence.

Miers was not qualified, on competence alone. Period, end of story. No consideration of ideology needed. Even though I know that the radicals were against her because of their litmus tests, its still good to see the senate as a whole standing up for its institutional perogatives and making the demand for documentation that Miers claims caused her to withdraw. The checks and balances in our system have been on vacation for too long.