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Sonja Steptoe / Time:
A Sampling of the Writings of Harriet Miers — A look at the paper trail of President Bush's Supreme Court nominee — 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.
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Sentencing Law and Policy, Law Dork, Centerfield, PoliPundit.com, Hotline On Call and Confirm Them
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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Don't misunderestimate Miers — President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School, and schooled in tactics by experience and advice, including the experience and advice of his father, whose most lasting political mistake was the nomination of David Souter.
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Hewitt's Still Wrong — Hugh Hewitt continues to defend the Harriet Miers nomination, now by attacking his usual allies on the right. He lays into Rammesh Ponnuru for not bowing down before "scholar" Doug Kmiec's defense of Miers (Hugh's choice to emphasize Kmiec's scholarly credentials is a bit odd …
PoliPundit.com:
Miers: Second Thoughts — I've had a day to reflect on the Miers nomination, and I've come to the conclusion that this is an exceedingly good decision. Let's line up the objections and knock 'em down. — 1. Miers may not be a conservative. — The President has known Miers for a long time, in every sense but the Biblical one.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Soothing the seething right wing — White House and Republican Party officials are scrambling to rein in conservative activists critical of President Bush's nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
A rebuttal to Prof. Barnett's "Cronyism" op-ed re the Miers nomination — I very strongly disagree with Prof. Randy Barnett's op-ed in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal (already available online). On the Volokh Conspiracy blog (where he's also entertaining comments to the op-ed) …
Michelle Malkin:MIERS & THE MORNING AFTER — ***scroll for updates …
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Washington Post, publiusrendezvous.blogspot.com, Blogs for Bush, The Moderate Voice, Patterico's Pontifications, The Reaction, damnum absque injuria, The Sideshow, National Review, euphoricreality.net, PointofLaw.com, Iowa Voice, Associated Press, Vox Baby, JunkYardBlog, The Therapist, danieldrezner.com, Searchlight Crusade, Daily Pundit, Human Events, Classical Values, PunditGuy, Galley Slaves, David Corn, In the Agora, The Glittering Eye and Swing State Project
Patrick Ruffini / Patrick Ruffini '05:Coalition of the Chillin': SCOTUS Division
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bRight & Early, TMH's Bacon Bits, Brainster's Blog, Southern Appeal, Stop The ACLU and PoliPundit.com
White House:
President Holds Press Conference — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Good morning. Yesterday I nominated an outstanding individual to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Over the past three decades, Harriet Miers has built a stellar record of accomplishment in the law.
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Paul / Wizbang:
NEVER FLOODED NEW ORLEANS BUSES NOT USED FOR EVACUATION — *** Wizbang Exclusive *** — Remember this gut-wrenching picture? — (AP Photo/Phil Coale) — It was a picture of what was left of the Orleans Parish school systems bus fleet that was supposed to be used to evacuate the citizens of the parish BEFORE the hurricane.
Washington Post:
Bush Says Miers Most Qualified Person for Court — President Bush, responding to critical questions about his appointment of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, said he is confident she shares his judicial philosophy now and that she will continue to share it during the next 20 years.
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Editor and Publisher:
Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo, But Newspapers Handle the AP Photo Quite Differently — NEW YORK On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch …
CNN:
Race fears spark St. George ban — LONDON, England (CNN) — British prison officers who wore a St. George's Cross tie-pin have been ticked off by the jails watchdog over concerns about the symbol's racist connotations. — The pins showing the English flag — which has often raised hackles due …
Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Making a pig's ear of defending democracy — A year and a half ago, I mentioned in this space the Florentine Boar, a famous piece of porcine statuary in Derby that the council had decided not to have repaired on the grounds that it would offend Muslims. Having just seen Looney Tunes …
johannhari.com:
The first genocide of the twenty-first century is drawing to an end — There are no black people left to cleanse or kill — At last, some good news from Darfur: the holocaust in western Sudan is nearly over. There's only one problem - it's drawing to an end only because there are no black people left to cleanse or kill.
Jessica Marsden / Yale Daily News:
Bolton agitates audience — It was a bittersweet homecoming for United Nations Ambassador John Bolton '70 LAW '74, a former chair of the Conservative Party who returned to the Yale Political Union Monday evening amid a chorus of hisses and politically charged questions.
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