A Response to George Will

I found this through a link at Townhall.com.

It is a link to a post at Volokh Conspiracy, and is an attempt to rebut the George Will column I posted in the previous post.

You can find it here.

Here is an excerpt:

George Will’s column on Harriet Miers and the President is both unfair and sloppy. He begins by suggesting that the President is uninterested and incapable of making sophisticated judgments about the Court and judicial philosophies. This charge is patently unfair. The President picked John Roberts, and has a stellar first term record of selecting conservative judges for the appellate bench. There hasn’t been a liberal in the bunch with the exception of Roger Gregory and Barrington Parker, both of whom the President obviously nominated as part of an early political compromise that got Roberts and others on the circuit bench. This is a man who almost lost the Presidency because of the liberal activism of the Florida Supreme Court. He understands full well the power of the Court and has been serious about his appointments in the past.

I still think the Miers nomination is a bad choice on the President's part, though I am sure there are good arguments in her favor.

The preponderance of the evidence leads me to believe this was not the right choice. Unless proven otherwise, I am confident I will retain this belief.