WRITING IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Ruth Wedgwood offers a defense of Harriet Miers:

And on Miss Harriet herself? Yes, she is a little older, so you’d only get 15 to 20 years, instead of 30. And she doesn’t look like Zoe Baird (strangely, I think that has something to do with early reaction — A little dowdy, not One of Us — though I’m not One of Us, either). But she has to be one tough broad to have made it up through a Texas law firm and the organized bar in that time and place, and unlike a certain cauliflower-nosed ex-president, I don’t think George Bush is scared of strong women. My only objection is that she uses the word “cool.” But I doubt she would think that European constitutional law was any “cooler” than ours — they don’t do that in Texas. Rather, she and John Roberts would move the center of the court in tandem.

Sorry, the whole thing is subscription-only. And shouldn’t Ruth have invoked Kimba Wood instead of Zoe Baird? . . . .