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October 27, 2005

Job Vacancy

Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination today, in the face of sharp criticism by conservatives and serious questions from Republican senators over her qualifications. Randy Barnett (a Cato Senior Fellow) ran a nice article in the WSJ that invokes Alexander Hamilton in the question of Ms Miers qualifications:

The possibility of rejection would be a strong motive to care in proposing. The danger to his own reputation, and, in the case of an elective magistrate, to his political existence, from betraying a spirit of favoritism, or an unbecoming pursuit of popularity, to the observation of a body whose opinion would have great weight in forming that of the public, could not fail to operate as a barrier to the one and to the other.

Let the SCOTUS speculations begin anew!

Wulf Posted by Wulf on October 27, 2005 at 05:59 PM

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