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One reason Miers' evangelical belief is important
...Friends and colleagues say Miers is not likely to pay much heed to how Ivy League law professors could praise her if she only “evolves” by becoming liberal. Miers has never run in those circles -- and beyond that, they say she’s centered on Christ. My Monday Worldmagblog mention of her servant disposition, that includes bringing coffee and donuts to church, has already brought gibes from some fellow columnists, but a self-effacing nature bodes well for the upholding of an originalist position wherein justices are servants of the text rather than masters of it.

Columnist Michelle Malkin argues well that “a good heart does not a great Supreme Court justice make.” No, but it might make a person remain an originalist. Heart: In so many ways this appointment is classic Bush. Nearly six years ago, when asked in an early debate among Republican presidential candidates to name his favorite philosopher, W famously said, “Christ, because he changed my heart.” The pooh-poohing of his answer then (favorite philosopher – the question was about mind, not heart ) anticipated the current debate among conservatives: Suffering servant? Why not intellectual leader?...