Blog Round-up – Sunday, October 9th
on Oct 9, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Tax Prof Blog has is reporting that while nominee Harriet Miers was co-managing partner of Locke, Liddell & Sapp, the Dallas-based law firm provided investors with questionable legal opinions for contingent deferred swap (CDS) tax shelters marketed by accounting firm Ernst & Young.
Manuel Miranda has this article in Human Events Online, a National Conservative Weekly, denouncing the Miers nomination. Miranda is former judicial nominations counsel to Majority Leader Bill Frist and former senior nominations counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The LA Times has this article on the relationship between nominee Harriet Miers and Texas jurist Nathan Hecht. Underneath Their Robes provides some colorful commentary on the article here.
PrawfsBlawg has this post on the fact that Jay Sekulow recently stated in a in a White House conference call that he is “involved in three three cases at the Court this Term, and believe me: I want Harriet Meirs up there voting on these critical cases.” Jay Sekulow is Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative law firm.
Here is the Volokh Conspiracy on the merit of appointing law professors to the Supreme Court.
The Volokh Conspiracy also has this post about Miers appearing on the National Law Journal’s list of top lawyers.
Think Progress has this post on the fact that the head of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, has said that his support for Harriet Miers is in part due to confidential information he had received during a phone conversation with Karl Rove. In response to Dobson’s comments, Senator Specter has said, “If there is something which bears upon a precondition as to how a nominee is going to vote, I think that’s a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people.”
Finally, in non-confirmation news, the Washington Post has this article on how the legacy of Kelo will depend on how the government rebuilds New Orleans because the real problem with eminent domain is class inequality.
