Harriet Miers and affirmative action

If conservatives are looking for even more reasons why they should not support President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, they need to look no further than this news article:

As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal. [Emphasis added]

Paul Deignan over at Info Theory has provided excellent analyses on the Miers nomination. It's definitely worth checking out.