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...Harriet Miers burlesque unraveled last week, adding to a cacophony of presidential woes, I happened to check the calendar: it was only the first week of October 2005. George W. Bush's second term was less than nine months old. He has about 1,200 days left in office, a span greater than the entire length of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Time sure flies when you're having...
With an even thinner paper trail than John Roberts', Harriet Miers has left both supporters and opponents guessing. To gauge her thinking on key legal issues, they are combing through everything from old bar-association newsletters to interviews with her fellow churchgoers. Here's a look at the scant evidence...
...growing number of senators and commentators question President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, several of the University’s leading scholars have expressed doubts about the president’s choice, saying that Miers’ views are too unknown and that her legal credentials are lacking...
...Supreme Court nomination is the defining moment of a presidency, the nomination of Harriet Miers, White House legal counsel and previously Bush’s personal lawyer, confirms that the Bush administration has abandoned any attempt at vigorously or seriously advocating a coherent conservative philosophy...
...active in the Southern legal community at a time it was dominated by men, becoming the first female president of both the Dallas Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. Sure enough, Reid issued a statement 90 minutes after Bush announced the pick that began, "I like Harriet Miers." He called her "a trailblazer," unintentionally echoing the language of talking points that had been sent to Republicans. He added that the court "would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer...