Today el Presidente Bush named his choice to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s empty robe on the U.S. Supreme Court. Reaction to Harriet Miers’s nomination hasn’t been as strongly negative as was John Robert’s nomination, but that seems to be mostly because no one knows where she stands. She’s never been a judge and as a lawyer hasn’t argued any precedent setting cases.
The strongest criticisms of the nomination seem to be coming from Latinos. Latinos were hoping that one of their own would be nominated. To fill all the quotas, right-wingers were even throwing around the name of a Hispanic mujer to be nominated, Consuelo M. Callahan. Ann Marie Tallman, Executive Director of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is quoted in the Washington Post via Hispanic Tips as saying:

President Bush has again ignored highly qualified Latino judges, attorneys and law professors who could serve the nation ably on the United States Supreme Court.

President Bush ignoring Latinos? I’m in shock.