Harriet Miers

Wha? Conservatives Dismiss Kagan As Just Another Harriet Miers (VIDEO)

Ben Frumin | May 12, 2010, 1:02PM

Harriet Miers and Solicitor General Elena Kagan

It may seem to be an absurd -- outrageous -- comparison. But several conservatives have, in the last couple days, compared Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan -- the country's first female solicitor general and the first female dean of Harvard Law School -- to Harriet Miers. Yes, that Harriet Miers.

President George W. Bush nominated then-White House counsel Miers to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2005 -- though he was forced to withdraw the nomination after she came under heavy bipartisan criticism for being a Bush crony out of her depth in the rarefied air of the Supreme Court.

President Barack Obama nominated Kagan to the Court on Monday. While Republicans have generally been playing nice so far, some are taking a rather odd line of attack against Kagan.

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