Mired in Miers

I think Josh Marshall (with many other Democratic pundits) is misreading the religious-right distaste for Miers as evidence that she's "someone with what might be real moderate tendencies." Rather, regarding her record, it seems clear that she's a hard-core corporate right ideologue, as opposed to a religious right ideologue.

The Roberts Court will not only have the opportunity to dismantle the judicial advances of the civil rights era (abortion rights, affirmative action, equal protection, Title IX, etc.) but also the advances of the New Deal.

With Roberts and Miers I expect to see a slow erosion of civil rights pushed by Scalia and Thomas but a rapid roll-back of economic and social rights led by Bush's picks.