Well, all I can say — based on my years at Princeton 
    University and Harvard Law School — is this: “Documented 
    high power thinking” isn’t always what it’s cracked up to 
    be. There were plenty of “high power” thinkers where I 
    went to school . . . but even given the little I know of 
    Miers, I would trust her with the Court before I would 
    trust many of them.

    In fact, one of the most notable traits I’ve observed in 
    some of the so-called “high power” thinkers is a tendency 
    toward intellectual vanity — and it’s a tendency that can 
    be all too easily exploited by those who, to further 
    their own agendas, want to see judges overstep the 
    boundaries of their constitutional role.