Throwing Down the Hammer
In today’s OpinonJournal.com, Robert Bork has a must-read, cogent, and devastating piece on the Miers nomination. Read it . . . and then read it again. Here’s my favorite part:
Some moderate (i.e., lukewarm) conservatives admonish the rest of us to hold our fire until Ms. Miers’s performance at her hearing tells us more about her outlook on law, but any significant revelations are highly unlikely. She cannot be expected to endorse originalism; that would alienate the bloc of senators who think constitutional philosophy is about arriving at pleasing political results. What, then, can she say? Probably that she cannot discuss any issue likely to come before the court. Given the adventurousness of this court, that’s just about every issue imaginable. What we can expect in all probability is platitudes about not “legislating from the bench.” The Senate is asked, then, to confirm a nominee with no visible judicial philosophy who lacks the basic skills of persuasive argument and clear writing.
I agree that the nomination hearings will yield next to nothing on Miers judicial philosophy and will leave Republicans and Democrats equally confused. Bork implies that true conservatives are not supporting the nomination. How true are you?