Exhibit A For Why Lawyers Should Never Write Letters to the Miami Herald

Because intelligent observations such as these by Raquel Rodriguez on the Frank Jimenez appointment mess will be printed right next to this:

Providing former President Jimmy Carter with a forum to present his prejudiced and inaccurate views is the equivalent of letting Osama bin Laden write an Other Views column about the U.S. government.

I expect better from The Miami Herald.

LUIS GLASER, Miami

Sometimes this blog just writes itself.

They Write Letters....

Here's a surprise -- former General Counsel to Jeb Bush Raquel Rodriguez thinks new Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles Canady is just fine:

The Miami Herald confuses a conservative judicial philosophy with a conservative political philosophy. To be a conservative jurist means understanding that the executive and legislative branches make policy, and that the judicial branch interprets law.It does not, and should not, have anything to do with whether a judge agrees with a particular policy expressed in that law.

You know what, I agree with this completely. Does Charles Canady?