Intellectual giants of the Court.
“[Miers] also found [Governor Bush] ‘cool,’ [and] said he and his wife, Laura, were ‘the greatest!’”
…”Ms. Miers wrote to thank the Bushes, saying,’Texas has a very popular governor and first lady!’”
…”Ms. Miers wrote to thank [Bush] ‘for taking the time to visit in the office and on the plane back – cool!’”
“If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.”
“The Freedom of Information Act is the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.”
“There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”
Update 10/11: You can view some of the correspondence between Bush and Miers here.