Miers

First we heard that Harriet Miers should sit on the Supreme Court because she is religious. Now we're hearing that she's done some pro-bono work:

She helped a garage attendant for her building complete an adoption. She won a case for a Nigerian woman who was fighting a deportation order. She lost when representing an indigent single mother denied disability benefits.

"She handled small matters," said lawyer Jerry Clements, who has worked with Miers. "Somebody needed a divorce, somebody needed an adoption."

As head of the State Bar of Texas, she urged lawyers to take on more pro bono, or unpaid, cases for the poor, but she resisted proposals to make such work mandatory. "The real issue is how to provide more services of better quality to the poor who need them," she said.

I hear little said, however, over whether she is actually qualified to sit on the country's highest court. The fact that few people are discussing her legal qualifications makes me think that there isn't much to them.