Supreme Court

President Bush nominated Harriet Miers today to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Miers is a member of Bush's inner circle and has never been a judge. She has worked as a commercial litigator representing companies such as Microsoft, Walt Disney Co., and Republic National Bank.

Later in the semester I will show you how the National Association of Manufacturers (among other groups) has worked to help bring to the bench (in my opinion, overly) corporate friendly jurists.

UPDATE: Note that some of the stronger opposition to Miers is coming from different stripes of conservatives. Indeed, it is simply a mistake to identify corporate interests with the interests of conservatives.

UPDATE #2: Miers has an interesting view of the role of the judiciary:

"President Bush praises Harriet Miers as an opponent of legislating from the judicial bench, but as a corporate lawyer she lobbied then-Gov. Bush to let the Texas high court rather than the Legislature decide if attorney fees should be limited."