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IIRC, Rehnquist is the most recent appointee to lack bench experience. There have certainly been plenty of Justices who have lacked bench experience over the course of our history, some of whom have been distinguished. But the question is whether or not Miers has a really first-rate legal mind -- I'm sure she's bright, just as I'm sure all of my colleagues here in law school are bright. But I don't think many of them would be qualified to sit on SCOTUS, and I'm not sure Miers is.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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