President Bush has nominated White House counsel and Dallas-based attorney Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. Ms. Miers has never been a judge before, the first such non-judge nomination since that of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Ms. Miers was the first woman to be president of the State Bar of Texas and, for a time during the President’s stint as a businessman, she was his personal lawyer.
Howard Bashman has an extensive list of developing links on Ms. Miers. And Professor Bainbridge asks very reasonable questions and makes challeging observations regarding the nomination here. And Tom Goldstein and Lyle Denniston over at SCOTUSBlog are already expressing skepticism that the Senate will approve the nomination. On the other hand, William Dyer provides an impassioned defense of a nomination of a non-jurist to the Supreme Court.