Looks like there's a [fair?] bit of conservative support for Bush's pick, Miers. The main thrust of the pro's seems to be "you don't need to be a judge/constitutional scholar/etc to understand the Constitution". Fair enough, but I think that misses the point- Miers is apparently pre-approved by the Democrats and is an unknown quantity. The Volokh Conspiracy reports that she seems to be pro-2nd amendment. Where she stands on the matter of Kelo is unknown- and there's the rub. No one at all can tell exactly what this woman thinks on certain matters of the gravest importance.
Speaking of Kelo, there are more cases appearing which show just how preposterous and ill-conceived that decision was- Norwood and Union Township to name but two. In the latter case, the go-ahead has been given to developers to work on land which the owner himself was trying to develop. The local Democrat government blocked his applications (because he wouldn't work with developers they suggested) and then seized the land with eminent domain and handed it to developers who just happened to have raised some cash for them. So the government can now seize your land and give it to their friends to do exactly what you wanted to do with the land in the first place.
Kelo means that no one's home or business or land is secure anymore. In my opinion it is the single greatest blow against the freedoms of the United States. Forget all that whingeing about the Patriot Act, Kelo is what people should be protesting about.
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