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Randy E. Barnett / Opinion Journal:
Cronyism — Alexander Hamilton wouldn't approve of Justice Harriet Miers. — During the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, Alexander Hamilton's definition of "impeachable offense" from Federalist No. 65 was plastered from one end of the media to the other. With the nomination of Harriet Miers …
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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.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Once More, Bush Turns To His Inner Circle — About two weeks ago, White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. told presidential counsel Harriet Miers to add another name to the Supreme Court selection process she was leading. The new candidate: Harriet Miers. — "What do you mean me?" she asked, according to a colleague.
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Michelle Malkin:
MIERS & THE MORNING AFTER — ***scroll for updates...Bush Rose Garden press conference scheduled for 1030am EDT...a few liveblogging notes...other reax...1245pmEDT Drudge siren...*** — Well, it's a new day. Upon sober reflection, President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers …
Opinion Journal:
Faith-Based Nominee — Only the President seems to know much about Miers's constitutional views. — With the nomination yesterday of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, President Bush has fulfilled his promise to appoint Justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Or has he?
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Douglas W. Kmiec / Washington Post:
An 'Honest Broker' — Rush to prejudgment. This is pretty much the order of the day regarding Harriet Miers. Crony. Intellectual lightweight. Souter redux — all of these political epithets have been tossed hurriedly and ungraciously toward President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court.
hughhewitt.com:Do You Trust Them? — Earlier I posted my reaction to the nomination of Harriet Miers.
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:Hewitt on Miers — In the course of an otherwise plausible defense …
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:Don't misunderestimate Miers — President Bush is a politician trained …
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Daily Kos:
OH-Sen: contested primary in the cards? — So this is weird. — A few months ago, Rep. Sherrod Brown was being begged to run for Senate in Ohio. Brown demurred. Rep. Tim Ryan passed, so the baton was passed on to Paul Hackett, which had electrified progressives nationwide …
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Washington Post:
Wrangling Not Yet Over on Iraqi Charter — Despite Imminent Vote, U.S. Envoy Leading Bid for Major Changes to Win Over Sunnis — BAGHDAD, Oct. 3 — Two weeks before Iraqis vote on a new constitution, with millions of copies already circulating for voters to study, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad …
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New York Times:
Slowing Is Seen in Housing Prices in Hot Markets — A row of homes in Washington. In Fairfax County, Va., homes for sale rose nearly 50 percent in August. — A real estate slowdown that began in a handful of cities this summer has spread to almost every hot housing market in the country, including New York.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Lawyer Casts Blame on Reporter for Time in Jail — Source Insists He Released Miller to Testify Last Year — A lawyer for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, said yesterday that New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her attorneys are responsible …
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 …
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Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
Six Democratic War Vets Seek House Seats — WASHINGTON - Lawyer Patrick Murphy and five other veterans of the Iraq war are asking questions about President Bush's policies in Iraq as part of their broader Democratic campaigns to win congressional seats in next year's elections.
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Jon Dougherty / WorldNetDaily:
Oklahoma bomber had jihad material — Documents found in apartment of student who blew himself up — An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.
