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By Feddie Posted in SCOTUS — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

As I noted earlier in an update to this post, I have received several comforting reassurances about the conservative bona fides of Ms. Miers. And I am certainly heartened that Leonard Leo, Professor Rick Garnett, Jay Sekulow, Hugh Hewitt, Beldar, and Fred Barnes, are all comfortable with the president's selection of Miers. I guess what continues to bother me (on a macro level) is the stealth strategy employed by the president with respect to both of his nominations to the SCOTUS. I can't help but feel as though the president and the Republican Party are wimping out in refusing to have a national debate on the importance of judicial restraint, originalism, textualism, federalism, etc. I don't know. Maybe many of my conservative buddies are right. Maybe I did overreact upon first learning of Miers's nomination. But I can't shake the feeling that this nomination is going to end up coming back to haunt us as a party and a country. I hope and pray that I am mistaken.