President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee may make Democrats happier than conservatives, who may be unhappy with the choice.
That’s the view from UW Madison law professor, Ann Althouse. Chief White House counsel Harriet Miers has no judicial experience, but Althouse says Miers may actually be exactly the sort of nominee that Democrats in the U.S. Senate have said they want. “Minority Leader Harry Reid had said that he specifically wanted that,” said Althouse, which she found “puzzling, (because) he was criticizing (Chief Justice nominee John) Roberts for never having never having taken a deposition or conducted a trial.”