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Washington Post:
Bush Names Harriet Miers to Supreme Court — White House Counsel Would Replace O'Connor — President Bush has chosen White House Counsel Harriet Miers as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. — Miers, who was Bush's personal attorney in Texas, was the first woman elected president …
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Chooses Miers for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice — " /> Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, reaching into his loyal inner circle for a pick that could reshape the nation's judiciary for years to come.
Bill Mears / CNN:
Bush expected to nominate Harriet Miers to Supreme Court — Miers currently works as White House counsel — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush is expected Monday to name White House counsel Harriet Miers as his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Althouse, The Blogging of the President, the talking dog, ScrappleFace, Wonkette and Decision '08
ABCNEWS:
Who Is Harriet Miers? — Bush's 'Pit Bull in Size 6 Shoes' Has Distinguished Career — Oct. 3, 2005 — Harriet Ellan Miers is White House counsel and was formerly President Bush's personal lawyer in Texas. She first served in the White House as staff secretary and was deputy chief …
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Demagogue, Althouse, Hit and Run, Mathew Gross, The Sideshow, Confederate Yankee and Scared Monkeys
Associated Press:
Reports: Bush to Pick Miers for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers (search), White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (search) on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
A DISAPPOINTMENT — Harriet Miers, that is. I'm sure that she is a capable lawyer and a loyal aide to President Bush. But the bottom line is that he had a number of great candidates to choose from, and instead of picking one of them—Luttig, McConnell, Brown, or a number of others …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Disaster, Thy Name Is Harriet Miers — George Bush's decision to appoint Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court is bitterly disappointing. — Miers is a Bush crony with no real conservative credentials, who leapfrogged legions of more deserving judges just because she was Bush's pal.
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Blogs for Bush, QandO, irishpennants.com, The Right Coast, The Anchoress, Bench Memos … and The Blue State Conservatives
White House:
President Nominates Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice — THE PRESIDENT: In our great democracy, the Supreme Court is the guardian of our constitutional freedoms and the protector of our founding promise of equal justice under the law. Over the past five years, I've spoken clearly …
Krempasky / Confirm Them:
A promise unkept? We'll see... We've got a lot to learn about SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers. To hear the White House tell us, "With her distinguished career and extensive community involvement, Ms. Miers would bring a wealth of personal experience and diversity to the Supreme Court." — Diversity.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
IT'S HARRIET MIERS for Sandra Day O'Connor's position. (Via a GOP press release). — UPDATE: More here. Perhaps they'll change my mind, but so far I'm underwhelmed. — ANOTHER UPDATE: Mark Daniels: "Another stealth nominee?" — GayPatriot has predictions.
Michelle Malkin:
UTTERLY UNDERWHELMED — ***scroll down for rolling updates*** — What Julie Myers is to the Department of Homeland Security, Harriet Miers is to the Supreme Court. (Video of the announcement here via NYT).) It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience.
confirmthem.com:
96 responses to 'Miers'. — RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for 'Miers'. — Stop The ACLU - — Kennedy v. The Machine » Incalculable Damage - — 1 Ironman — About 'Miers'. — Justice Cheney? — 2 SpectatorGirl — About 'Miers'. — Finally a new thread.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Krempasky / RedState.org:
A promise unkept? Who the hell knows. — We've got a lot to learn about SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers. To hear the White House tell us, "With her distinguished career and extensive community involvement, Ms. Miers would bring a wealth of personal experience and diversity to the Supreme Court."
Discussion:
Wonkette
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: Some Initial Thoughts — I really need to get down to the Court to argue but wanted to note my sense that the President's nomination creates a very interesting political dynamic - one that places the nomination in peril. The nomination obviously will be vigorously supported …
Steve Dillard / Southern Appeal:I am done with President Bush: Harriet Miers? Are you freakin' kidding me?!
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PoliBlog
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
RINO Agents Reporting! — Quasim was ready to call it a day and go home. He really disliked the weekly task of gathering the intel reports from the outer reaches of the empire. Not only did it take time to collect the reports from the field teams hidden on all those remote planets, but the reports were so inane and boring.
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Classical Values
