Miers’ policy documents need to be open book

Good for Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., for pushing for the release of documents from Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’ time as White House counsel, an effort pitting him and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., against many other Republicans. “I would like to see them review the policy documents that she was a part of — not the legal documents (from) when she was in the (counsel’s) office but the policy documents — and really consider what of those they can release,” Brownback told The Hill newspaper.
The Bush administration’s argument for keeping the papers under a blanket of executive privilege would be more persuasive if Miers had a wealth of other legal writings. But it’s unfair to ask the Senate to gauge her nomination with little more to go on than her effusive “thank you” notes.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

2 Comments

  1. J M Wlaker
    Posted October 21, 2005 at 6:21 am | Permalink

    Miers’ past shows her to be a member of the religious right. As such, she has no place as a Supreme court justice. But just her lack of qualifications should knock her out of the running anyway.Go Bush…ya did it again.

  2. R.D.Liebst
    Posted October 27, 2005 at 8:02 am | Permalink

    They have just announced on GMA.Miers has withdrawn her name from the section for the SC. Bush has excepted the withdrawn.