As he touts at his website, Steve Bainbridge was quoted at
of an American Bar Association rating to Harriet Miers’ quest
to become an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
(”ABA’s probe of Miers’ record, rating may be key for confirma-
tion,” Oct. 12, 2005)
Here’s how the article presents the core of Prof. Bainbridge’s
remarks (emphasis added):
“The problem here is that the people who most need
convincing are the people who are least likely to trust the
ABA,” Bainbridge said, noting that many conservatives
view the ABA as part of a liberal legal establishment. “A
lot of us resigned from ABA after getting fed up with its
establishment-left liberalism. If she were one of us, she’d
have quit, too.” . . .
“She has the kind of qualifications that are sort of classic
ABA qualifications,” said UCLA professor Bainbridge.
“President of a bar, active in the ABA, managing partner
of a big firm. The bulk of the committee that will decide her
rating is composed of people who look like her.”
That’s right, Harriet didn’t follow the harrumphing herd of
Heffalumps out of the ABA, so she is suspect. In a leadership position,
she stayed to fight. Meanwhile, the whiny guys who keep telling us
they deserve a seat on the Supreme Court because they have hung in
at institutions where they are a persecuted and mocked minority –
yes, those heroic figures — think Harriet should have capitulated,
leaving the nation’s most important general bar association fully
under the sway of the evil, hated Liberals. Pathetic grasping at
straws. Or, is it pathetic group-think by a bunch of self-proclaimed
rugged individualists?
p.s. Don’t even get me started about the phrase
“people who look just like her.”
stepping on
sidewalk ants the boy
everyone bullies
the anger from work
in my son’s birthday balloons
the son
who argues everything
I study his face
in a puddle
(Brooks Books, 2000)
One bath
after another–
how stupid
— ISSA
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