Americablog has gotten a hold of this document which appears to be a gay rights-related questionnaire that Harriet Miers answered when she ran for Dallas City Council in 1989.  (ACSblog wonders whether the document is legit; John at … [Read more...]

Todd Zywicki, a conservative law prof and blogger at Volokh with whom I disagree on just about everything, is very unhappy about Harriet Miers' nomination.  In this post, however, he hits the nail on the head about a great deal more … [Read more...]

Today's reactions to the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court have been most interesting.  Right blogistan is, in general, apoplectic.  Check out the icky Michelle Malkin's roundup of uniformly negative (to put it … [Read more...]

LOCKE LIDDELL: $ 22 Mil Settlement Serves as Warning to Other Law FirmsLocke Liddell & Sapp's agreement to pay $ 22 million to settle a suit alleging it aided a client in defrauding investors is expected to serve as a warning to other … [Read more...]

Harriet Miers has never been a judge, and her law practice appears to have consisted entirely of representing ordinary commercial interests.*  There is, therefore, one and only one source for documents revealing her views on important … [Read more...]

Tom Goldstein, a respected lawyer, Supreme Court analyst for NPR, and host of the excellent SCOTUSblog, has predicted that the Senate will reject Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court - a possibility I also floated here.  … [Read more...]

The folks at the right-wing "Confirm Them" site are despondent over the Miers nomination, viewing this as a historic betrayal of the cause to remake the judiciary.  The fear, I suspect is twofold.  First, Miers has no … [Read more...]

NPR and other sources are reporting that President Bush will name his current White House Counsel, Harriet Miers, to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.WHO???Like everyone else in the United States, I know very … [Read more...]

John Roberts picked up the votes of three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee - Leahy (Vt.), Kohl (Wis.), and Feingold (Wis.), along with all of the Republicans, in the Committee's 13-5 vote to send his nomination to the Senate … [Read more...]

OK, so it's not looking like the Dems are going to adopt my "everyone vote yes, but with a warning" strategy.  Nor does it look like there will be united front of "no" votes, though there will certainly be … [Read more...]