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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: MaxSpeak and Greg's Opinion
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.
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 …
Discussion: Crescat Sententia
Washington Post:   Harriet E. Miers Profile
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Harriet Miers Gets The Nod
Discussion: The Heretik
Steve Dillard / Southern Appeal:   I am done with President Bush: Harriet Miers?  Are you freakin' kidding me?!
Feddie / Confirm Them:   Where's my Scalia? Where's my Thomas?
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.
Discussion: Classical Values
Kim Sengupta / Independent:
Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds  —  Relief efforts to combat Hurricane Katrina suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war, an official American inquiry into the disaster has revealed.
mirror.co.uk:
KEEP IT SEALED KEEP IT SECRET  —  EXCLUSIVE: Secret paper links Thatcher to freebies probe  —  A DOCUMENT linking Margaret Thatcher to a US corruption probe is so explosive civil servants have been asked to ensure it remains "sealed".  —  The 79-year-old former Premier …

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