Having read through the Miers questionnaire supplied to the Senate Judiciary Committee, I note with shock that in a legal career that lasted more than 25 years, she argued 8 cases before juries: “I have identified eight cases that were tried to verdict. I was lead counsel or sole counsel in four, lead local counsel in one, and associate counsel in three.” That number again: 8. Eight. E-I-G-H-T. Turns out that the number is pretty important in Miers’s career, since it’s exactly the same number of cases she dealt with at the appellate level as well.

Her entire combined courtroom experience in the course of her long career: 16 cases. Thus does the last prong in the Miers defense — that she will bring real-world lawyering experience to the bench — collapse like a house of cards.

I feel like George Jetson: Jane, won’t somebody stop this crazy thing?