Harry Reid on Harriet Miers

And what's up with Harry Reid?

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1128416712027

"But Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada took to the Senate floor after Bush's speech to praise Miers.

"With so much at stake, we shouldn't rush to judgment about this or any other nominee, but even at this early stage of the confirmation process, I will say that I am impressed by what I know about Harriet Miers," said Reid, who recommended her to the president.

"Ms. Miers has not been a judge, but I regard that as a strength, not a weakness," said Reid, a former trial lawyer himself. "In my view, the Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer, a nominee with relevant nonjudicial experience."

You'ld expect this from Hatch:

"A lot of my fellow conservatives are concerned, but they don't know her as I do," said Hatch, a former Judiciary Committee chairman. "She's going to basically do what the president thinks she should, and that is be a strict constructionist."