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...Stein says it was always obvious that the president would nominate a conservative. There are three basic types of persons he could have nominated-a "stealth candidate," such as Harriet Miers, who has little record; a thoughtful and open-minded conservative; or a doctrinaire or "instrumental" conservative who has an agenda to enact. "We are going to have a conservative on the court-that's a given-so between those three choices I would much prefer having someone who is intelligent, open-minded and doesn't approach things knowing the result they want to come away with." Concludes Stein...
...last group President Bush thought he had to worry about opposing Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. But it turns out the man most responsible for taking Miers down was an insider, the G.O.P.'s fourth-ranked Senator, Jon Kyl (rhymes with smile). The second-term conservative from Arizona argued at length in meetings with majority leader Bill Frist and G.O.P. whip Mitch McConnell that the Miers nomination was too risky ideologically and too costly politically, sources on Capitol Hill tell TIME. From Day One, says a G.O.P. staff member, "[Kyl] was trying...
...Valerie Plame; Bush senior adviser Karl Rove, who while not indicted has still emerged as a player in the scandal; and chief of staff Andrew Card, who gets some of the blame for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina and even more for the botched Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. "All relationships with the President, except for his relationship with Laura, have been damaged recently," the White House adviser says. The closest aide who is undamaged is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice--who is off minding the rest of the world--and, of course, Bush himself. "The funny thing...
Following weeks of intense scrutiny and bruising criticism, Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination for Associate Supreme Court Justice last Thursday. She ultimately claimed that her withdrawal came as a result of the continuing pressure placed upon her to release her White House documents. More specifically, she expressed in her letter of withdrawal the belief that releasing these documents would set a precedent limiting executive privilege. Although it can be debated whether her rationale for withdrawing to preserve executive privilege is reasonable, her decision to withdraw was undeniably the correct one. Much of the anti-Miers vitriol swirling around her nomination...
...With his nomination of Harriet Miers, who had little experience with constitutional law, Bush went with advice that he pick someone from outside the "judicial monastery." This time, the President went with one of the high priests. As assistant to the solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan, Alito argued 12 cases before the Supremes, and has presented at least two dozen before federal courts of appeal. And while a limited paper trail was one of the Democrats' few quibbles with the record of Judge John Roberts as he was being considered for chief justice, Alito has a four-lane highway...