Laura Bush: Vast Right-Wing Sexist Conspiracy
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Supreme CourtNow to be fair, Laura didn’t go nearly as far as Hillary did, but her logic is WAY off and I have four reasons: Edith Jones, Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and Alice Batchelder. These four women have been discussed in the blogosphere even before John Roberts was nominated.
From the Washington Post:
COVINGTON, Louisiana (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush joined her husband in defending his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday and said it was possible some critics were being sexist in their opposition to Harriet Miers.“That’s possible, I think that’s possible,” Mrs. Bush said when asked on NBC’s “Today Show” whether criticism that Miers lacked intellectual heft were sexist in nature. She said Miers’ accomplishments as a lawyer made her a role model to young women.
A week after President George W. Bush nominated Miers for a lifetime appointment to the highest U.S. court, he remained on the defensive against conservative critics within his own Republican Party.
As a conservative woman, Michelle Malkin weighs in:
Did the White House not inform Mrs. Bush that some of the most vocal criticism and questioning of the nomination comes from conservative women? Or does she buy into the Left’s conservative-women-are-self-loathing-traitors-to-their-gender line, too?
She also points to Chris Roach’s post about what qualifications a SCOTUS nominee should have.
The best and brightest lawyers have long been propelled into the judiciary. By best I don’t mean wealthiest or most persuasive in a courtroom, but those most capable of thoughtful, deliberate, and rigorous legal reasoning. It’s important for conservatives to recognize that this task can be both objective–or at least with a range of reasonable disagreement–but also requires specialized training and a well-trained, capable intellect. It’s no more elitist to recognize this fact in the realm of constitutional reasoning, than it is in the realm of physics or math or other specialized fields.
My bet? Meirs will do an adequater job in the hearings and become a justice simply because Bush nominated her.
Why? Because she’s a woman!
*wink*
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