{"id":4151,"date":"2005-10-13T16:44:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T20:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/10\/13\/bainbridge-finds-miers-guilty"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:30","slug":"bainbridge-finds-miers-guilty-by-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/10\/13\/bainbridge-finds-miers-guilty-by-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Bainbridge finds Miers guilty by Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As he <\/FONT>touts<\/FONT><\/A> at his website, Steve Bainbridge was quoted <\/FONT>at <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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length in a <\/FONT>Knight Ridder<\/EM> article<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> yesterday, on the importance <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of an American Bar Association rating to Harriet Miers’ quest<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to become<\/FONT> an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme <\/FONT>Court. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(“ABA’s probe of Miers’ record, rating may be key for <\/FONT>confirma-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tion,” Oct. 12, 2005) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Here’s how the article presents the core of Prof. Bainbridge’s <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“The problem here is that the people who most need  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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convincing are the people who are least likely to trust the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ABA,” Bainbridge said, noting that many conservatives<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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view the ABA as part of a liberal legal establishment<\/EM>. “A <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lot of us resigned from ABA after getting fed up with its <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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establishment-left liberalism. If she were one of us, she’d <\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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have quit, too<\/STRONG><\/EM>.”  . . . <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“She has the kind of qualifications that are sort of classic <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ABA qualifications,” said UCLA professor Bainbridge. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“President of a bar, active in the ABA, managing partner <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of <\/FONT>a big firm. The bulk of the committee that will decide her <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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rating is composed of people who look like her.” <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"runners  That’s right, Harriet didn’t follow the harrumphing herd of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Heffalumps <\/FONT>out <\/FONT>of the ABA, so she is suspect.  In a leadership position, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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she <\/FONT>stayed <\/FONT>to fight.  Meanwhile, the whiny guys who keep telling us <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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they <\/FONT>deserve<\/EM> a seat on the Supreme Court because<\/EM> they have hung in <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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at institutions where they are a persecuted and mocked minority —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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yes, those heroic figures — think Harriet should have capitulated, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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leaving the nation’s most important general bar association fully <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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under the sway of the evil, hated Liberals.  Pathetic grasping at <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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straws.  Or, is it pathetic group-think by a bunch of self-proclaimed <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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rugged individualists?<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p.s.<\/STRONG><\/EM> Don’t even get me started about the phrase <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“people who look just like her.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the son <\/DIV>
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who argues everything<\/DIV>
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I study his face<\/DIV>
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in a puddle<\/DIV>
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George Swede<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> from <\/FONT>Almost Unseen<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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One bath <\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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after another– <\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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how stupid<\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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As he touts at his website, Steve Bainbridge was quoted at length in a Knight Ridder article yesterday, on the importance of an American Bar Association rating to Harriet Miers’ quest to become an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.  (“ABA’s probe of Miers’ record, rating may be key for confirma- tion,” Oct. 12, 2005)   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-14X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12976,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}