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« Heads-up for Floridia CCW holders | Main | Schumer's office having trouble with the law »

Nominee Harriet Miers and the Right to Arms

Posted by David Hardy · 3 October 2005 05:47 PM

This time Dave Kopel, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, gets the scoop.

The nominee wrote a 1992 bar journal article referring to liberties that make for a free society, and listed them: "hose precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs."

BTW, Michelle Malkin is very much down on the new nominee. The American Thinker makes, to my reading, a good response.

· contemporary issues

1 Comment

Matt | October 4, 2005 12:57 PM

Lifson's take is sycophantic tripe, as far as I'm concerned. I'm supposed to believe Miers is a good nominee because: (1) she won't mind getting doughnuts and drinks for her fellow justices, and because of that they'll all swoon in her presence; and (2) Bush knows small-group dynamics, because he's a Harvard MBA (like Lifson)?

Spare me. The fact that Lifson has to resort to the "coffe 'n' donuts" argument is damning in itself. Bush may have the last laugh on Miers; she may turn out to be another Thomas. But right now there's absolutely no reason to think that will be the case.

The only bright side to this nomination right now is that Miers seems to have a generally sensible view of the right to keep and bear arms.