WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Sunday criticized President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court but said the debate should be civil.
"Number one, a lot of us wanted to see somebody that was a well-formed jurist, so that they had a track record of what they would do in key cases coming in front of the court, and we could have a debate with the country and within the Senate about what this means," said Brown back on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"Miers doesn't have that track record, and doesn't seem to be well-informed in her judicial philosophy having never been on the bench," he said.
Brownback noted that some Supreme Court nominees appointed by Republican presidents turned to the left once they were confirmed. He said that was because they did not have "well-formed" judicial philosophies.
"I think you're seeing both of these at play (with the Miers nomination," he said. "One, not a clear philosophical position and, number two, the potential over time of veering to the left."
