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Lo, from moderate left field (I write of Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times op-ed page) comes a voice of concern over the Supreme Court’s elevation, over the past 40 years, to moral tribune of America.

What brought this on, of course, was the frenzy of exploration when President Bush named Ms. Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. It was almost immediately plain that he had not named Phyllis Schlafly to the Court. An immediate inspection of Ms. Miers’s spoor reveals not very much about ideological inclinations—indeed, she confuses the whole picture by having once upon a time contributed money to a campaign of Al Gore’s. Beyond a punctilious affirmation of a challenge to the broadest interpretation of Roe v. Wade in her early years, there was nothing to engender ideological fright.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

Lo, from moderate left field (I write of Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times op-ed page) comes a voice of concern over the Supreme Court’s elevation, over the past 40 years, to moral tribune of America.

What brought this on, of course, was the frenzy of exploration when President Bush named Ms. Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. It was almost immediately plain that he had not named Phyllis Schlafly to the Court. An immediate inspection of Ms. Miers’s spoor reveals not very much about ideological inclinations—indeed, she confuses the whole picture by having once upon a time contributed money to a campaign of Al Gore’s. Beyond a punctilious affirmation of a challenge to the broadest interpretation of Roe v. Wade in her early years, there was nothing to engender ideological fright.