You have GOT to check the site to see the kind of questions these very Conservative folks want to ask Ms. Miers. 

Public Advocate's Questions That Need Answers For Harriet Miers
October 6, 2005

[Falls Church, Virginia. October 5, 2005.] Not since 1957 - when President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Charles Evans Whittaker - has anyone been nominated to the United States Supreme Court to fill a vacancy left by a justice whose vote was so crucial in so many constitutional cases. Hoping to shift the power on the court in a conservative direction, Eisenhower plucked Whittaker, a little-known lawyer and inexperienced judge to fill the bill.

Five years and six days later, Whittaker - at age 61 - resigned from the court, suffering from exhaustion, having been made the target for members of the Court battling and lobbying to create a majority. Overwhelmed by his responsibilities on the Court, and without having ever written a noteworthy opinion during his tenure on the Court, Justice Whittaker failed to fulfill President Eisenhower's hope to restore a conservative majority to the Court.

This week, President George W. Bush, saying that he wanted to move the Court in a more conservative direction, nominated Harriet Miers. Miers, like Whittaker, has been a successful practitioner and a leader of her state bar. An important question is whether she, like Whittaker, lacks the physical constitution, emotional stamina, and intellectual confidence, not only to survive on a Court that oftentimes is bitterly divided, but also to act independently both from her colleagues and from the very smart clerks whom she will hire to do her research and much of her writing.

If Ms. Miers is like Justice Whittaker, then she ought not be confirmed, for she would be, as columnist George Will has written, "the wrong pick." The challenge then, is for the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Ms. Miers questions that explore her character and her convictions, both as a person and as a lawyer in order to ascertain whether she is emotionally, spiritually and intellectually fit for this job.