“Miers: The Only Exit Strategy.” Columnist Charles Krauthammer has this op-ed today in The Washington Post.

“Deferential Calculus”: Today in The New York Times, Dahlia Lithwick has an op-ed that begins, “Of all the mysteries surrounding President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, possibly the biggest is this: How could a man who got it so right with John Roberts get it so wrong with Ms. Miers?”

And that newspaper today also contains an op-ed by Judge Morris B. Hoffman entitled “Ruling From the Head, Not the Heart.”

Available online at OpinionJournal: The Wall Street Journal today contains an editorial entitled “The Miers Blunder: Walking the nominee into a political crossfire.” The editorial’s closing words are: “Bad things happen when a President decides that ‘diversity,’ personal loyalty and stealth are more important credentials for the Supreme Court than knowledge of the Constitution and battle-hardened experience fighting the judicial wars of the past 30 years.”

And John Fund has an essay entitled “Lotto Trouble: The Miers nomination pits a Swift Boat author against a Bush National Guard detractor–in reverse.”

“Schools May Use Student Race as a Factor; An appeals court OKs Seattle’s policy for high school admissions; A parents group plans to take its case to the Supreme Court”: The Los Angeles Times contains this article today.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports today that “Seattle schools’ racial policy upheld; Critics of use of race in admissions plan to appeal.”

And The Seattle Times reports that “Racial tiebreaker will stand.”

Yesterday’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit can be accessed here.