Comments on: Miers’ “Qualificatons” http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3553.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3553.html/comment-page-1#comment-16308 Ginny Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:35:12 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003553.php#comment-16308 I know nothing about law - lawyers, law professors, constitutional law. Since people a good deal more smitten with Bush than Lex have been quite critical of this appointment (and I respect many of Lex's other opinions), I am inclined to see this estimate as less political and more objective, and weight it. I am somewhat curious, however, if Meier's qualifications are seen differently by practicing lawyers (Lex & Beldar) than by those who teach law or are pundits (even those with legal backgrounds). Does this contrast appear to hold - or is it a useless one, drawn from too small a sample? And if it does hold, what does it mean? I know nothing about law – lawyers, law professors, constitutional law. Since people a good deal more smitten with Bush than Lex have been quite critical of this appointment (and I respect many of Lex’s other opinions), I am inclined to see this estimate as less political and more objective, and weight it.

I am somewhat curious, however, if Meier’s qualifications are seen differently by practicing lawyers (Lex & Beldar) than by those who teach law or are pundits (even those with legal backgrounds). Does this contrast appear to hold – or is it a useless one, drawn from too small a sample? And if it does hold, what does it mean?

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