How I think we should stop Harriet Miers

[ellisonz]

After reflecting briefly on the current situation, I think the best path to the death of this nomination is through the Supreme Court a la Nixon vs. US. We should demand documents from her time as Bush's attorney and refuse to cooperate with the GOP on any of their agenda until we have them.

When it gets to SCOTUS Roberts would probably have to recuse himself just as Rhenquist did. The pressure on him from the other two branches, the public and the other justices would be enormous. I think the way it'd work then would be the longest-serving member stepping up to be Chief Justice on the case. If I'm correct, that's Stevens. We've got Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens and Souter. They've got Scalia and Thomas for sure. Kennedy and O'Conner are up the air. But O'Connor is going to want to screw Bush for nominating such a joke as Harriet Miers and screw Bush because she wants off the Court and argument for releasing the documents is sound. Kennedy can break for them and it won't matter, but he could go in our favor too. 5-3 Bush has to release all relevent documents to the Senate. Miers is probably toast is the Senate at this point.

We can then comb White House legal records from her time there which should yield a lot of juicy stuff. Somehow, I think Bush like Nixon will resign before we get to the logical extension. Or he could always be impeached. I see an opportunity...

[Kenroy]

1. Why do you want to stop Miers?

Who do you think Bush will nominate that's better?

[msongs]

2. nominate bill Clinton so that hillary will never be president :-)

now hillary could actually run but the conflict of interest thing would be an awesome election angle for the repubs

Msongs
www.msongs.com/clark2008.htm


edit to say: not necessarily my opinon on hillary or her being prez

[ellisonz]

5. Do you hear the clock ticking on these bastards?

I think we need to take them down and take them down hard. It happened before, we can make it happen again. I don't want Bush to send another nominee at all. Can we all say President Pelosi, together now.

[ochazuke]

3. Didn't Barbara Boxer stop the Bolton nomination...

...by using some proceedural rule regarding the admins failure to release documents?

As to why we would want to stop the nomination: she's a fascist. Bush may soon be so weak he must nominate a true consensus candidate. And certainly the crony thing is totally anti-constitutional. The Supreme Court must not be an extension of the Executive.

Who knows? Bush may not even be around long enough to nominate another justice.

[OneBlueSky]

4. don't let 'em fool you . . . the votes that Roberts and Miers cast . . .

will be dictated by BushCo and the PNAC for the next quarter century or so . . . both are malleable, slavishly devoted to Bush ("most brilliant man I ever met"), and less than qualified (to say the least) in constitutional law . . . the understanding, whether explicit or implicit, has to be "we'll appoint you, and we expect you to vote as we say" . . .