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By Carol Platt Liebau Posted in Analysis and Predictions — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Last night, I wrote:

In fact, one of the most notable traits I've observed in some of the so-called "high power" thinkers is a tendency toward intellectual vanity -- and it's a tendency that can be all too easily exploited by those who, to further their own agendas, want to see judges overstep the boundaries of their constitutional role.

The point is that not every excellent, strict-constructionist justice need be excellent for precisely the same reasons.

Today, Marvin and Peter Olasky make a related point here.

And one more thing -- everyone who has been so quick to label Harriet Miers as intellectually lacking: Maybe she is. We'll see. But how do they know now?