Ann is mellowing a bit on Miers. She explains why here.

I remain unmellow on the subject, but remain ready for evidence to suggest why mellowing ought to commence. (BTW, that comment should not be contrued as a repudiation of Althouse, just that I remain oppossed to the nomination).

Update: This post has made Hugh Hewitt happy. However, it didn’t do much for Stephen Bainbridge and Gordon Smith.

I wholly concur with Gordon’s assessment:

I have no problem making “grounding in reality” one of the considerations or selling points for a nominee, but in my view, Supreme Court justices should have something extra (and I don’t mean that they were the President’s personal lawyer). If Harriet Miers is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, so are thousands of attorneys and non-attorneys, whose main qualification is political connectedness. Obviously, political connections have always been extremely important to District- and Circuit-level appointments, and necessary-though-usually-not-sufficient for Supreme Court seats, but demanding something more of our Supreme Court justices is not asking too much.