President Bush has selected Harriet Miers as his second choice to the Supreme Court.
According to sketchy reports in the news, the President has had a long-term working relationship with Ms. Miers and has a great deal of admiration for her capabilities as a lawyer and legal counsel.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that she probably is a heck of a lawyer. Since she is the president of the Texas Bar Association, that should give some credence to that position. There is no doubt that she understands the law... from a lawyer's perspective. Nevertheless, I think that the fact that someone is an excellent physicist and researcher does not necessarily make that person a great physics teacher. The fact that someone has exceptional expertise in anatomy does not make that person a great surgeon. The fact that someone builds exceptionally fast cars does not qualify that person to race at Daytona. The fact that someone has studied Plato and Aristotle does not qualify them as a Greek philospher (even if they are Greek).
You get my point. While there is nothing in her background that indicates she may be a bad judge, there is no record to base her selection to the Supreme Court. She may actually have the potential to be a very good Justice. But for now, it looks like Congress could be buying a "pig in a poke."
