американская политика

[avva]

Насколько хорошим был первый бушевский выбор кандидата в Верховный суд (Робертс), настолько плохим и диким оказался второй (Майерс). Даже крайне правые и консерваторы взбунтовались.

Любопытно будет, если найдётся достаточно республиканцев в сенате, готовых её прокатить.

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[igorlord.livejournal.com]

Maybe if both camps uneasy, this is the best candidate?

My only problem with her is an utter uncertainty of where her ideology lies (I'd hate her to be an extremist on either side).

As for the stench of cronysm, it is definitely there. I just hope this does not mean an utter incompetence, as many of Bush's cronys have exhibited in the past (and Bush being the most incompetent of them, but this is a different topic).

[avva.livejournal.com]

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.

Не знаю как насчёт некомпетентности (вряд ли она некомпетентна), но на вершины интеллекта или достижения в области юридической мысли тут расчитывать не приходится.

[igorlord.livejournal.com]

Hm, that article maker her sound ok for the job.

"Harriet Miers is a capable lawyer, a hard worker, and a kind and generous person [...], a careful and fair-minded listener."

A capable lawyer who is careful and fair-minded does sound like positive characteristics.

Mr. Frum further goes along to say that "she is not the person to lead the court in new directions". That should sound good to the conservatives, who have coined the supposedly deragotory term "an activist judge", which Harriet Miers seems not to be, according to this description.

But she is definitely a crony.

In any case, this says little about her actual ideology (even fair-minded people usually have one) besides that she is probably a conservative, given her with for Bush administration.

[avva.livejournal.com]

A capable lawyer who is careful and fair-minded does sound like positive characteristics.

Для Верховного суда недостаточно.

But she is definitely a crony.

Угу.

In any case, this says little about her actual ideology (even fair-minded people usually have one) besides that she is probably a conservative, given her with for Bush administration.

Проблема не только в том, что у неё неясно какая идеология; но ещё и в том, что непонятно, есть ли у неё вообще юридическая идеология, т.е. сформулированная точка зрения по различным конституционным вопросам, например. Опыт её работы не включал, как правило, обязанностей, которые требовали бы подобных размышлений.

[igorlord.livejournal.com]

Well, what is suffecient for the Supreme Court that is not suffecient for an appleals judge, for example? Sharpness of the mind is certainly a prerequisite (a demonstration of what happens that it is lacking is our President). But why do you think that she lacks the IQ?

You are also talking about the lack of judicial experience. It seems necessary for me, too, but it looks like people who know better disagree -- Roberts had the whole of 2 years of it. Many former SCOTUS judges had none before joining the Court.

You accuse her of lacking a formed judicial philosophy. Unfortunately, these days a judicial philosophy is also a political issue (Constitution as a Living Documents, Dead Document, State Rights, Federal Powers, ...). Why do you require someone with a formed set of prejudices? It a truly open mind on a range of problems a liabiilty?