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What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate. She has no judicial resume and hasn't left a long trail of noteworthy memos, briefs, oral argument transcripts or law journal articles...
President Bush, who prides himself on boldness, went with safety for his second Supreme Court nomination. Harriet Ellan Miers -now the White House counsel, and named Monday morning to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor-was commended by several Democratic senators during the President's consultation process. "If there is a fight to be had, it will be from the right," says a Republican Senate aide. "The left has been disarmed...
...backers felt "depressed," "let down," and "a little worn out having to appease the left on all these choices." Cheney replied: "I think you'll find when you look back 10 years from now that it will have been a great appointment. ...You'll be proud of Harriet's record, Rush. Trust me." Republicans also expressed dismay that Miers had donated $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign in 1988. Republican officials said she formerly was a conservative Democrat, and Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan noted that at that time most people in Texas political life were Democrats. "People...
...Administration officials say that in Schmidt's absence, the slack will be taken up by Jim Dyke, who was Republican National Committee (RNC) communications director during the reelection campaign and now runs a consulting firm, Jim Dyke & Associates, in Charleston, S.C. Aides tell TIME that the confirmation team for Harriet Miers, Bush's second nominee, will not include Fred Thompson, the Law and Order actor and former senator from Tennessee, who served as adviser/shepherd to Roberts. Thompson's schedule does not allow it, the aides said. Ed Gillespie, the lobbyist and former RNC chairman, will take on some of those...
...Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Golnoush Niknejad, Logan Orlando and Elspeth Reeve