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The Volokh Conspiracy - Harriet Miers: Some Undistinguished Writing.--
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "The Volokh Conspiracy Who Are We? Subscribe E-Mail Policy Linking Policy Stuff Blogroll Archives Pre-2004 Archives Search Home 1000 [ Jim Lindgren , October 5, 2005 at 1:51am ] Trackbacks Harriet Miers: Some Undistinguished Writing.-- I just read a series of excerpts collected by Time Magazine from Harriet Miers' article in the 1992 Texas Lawyer . (In the comments below, perhaps someone can link a full copy. [UPDATE: Here it is.] I want to see if Time slyly picked out the worst passages, or whether (as I fear) the entire article is as painfully platitudinous as the excerpts that Time chose.) The first Miers quotation [See the 2D UPDATE below; the error in this passage is in LEXIS's transcription--JL]: "The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties , access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs." What is the "freedom of liberties"? We all make typographical errors (and this may well be one [UPDATE: it is a typo; see 2D Update below]), but her writing has that airy feel of someone trying to sound important by regurgitating empty platitudes. Time 's second excerpt includes this sentence: "Those who would choose a rule of man rather than the rule of law must not escape fitting penalty." You get the sense that first she wrote "must not escape penalty," then thought that she needed to qualify it with the word "fitting," but she didn't realize that idiomatically this would require adding an article: "must not escape a fitting penalty." On this blog (and elsewhere), I have published many sentences as awkward as this one of Miers', but I'd like to see" .... read entire page
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