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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, PoliPundit.com, Centerfield, 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.
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) …
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.
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.
Michelle Malkin:MIERS & THE MORNING AFTER — ***scroll for updates …
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publiusrendezvous.blogspot.com, Washington Post, Blogs for Bush, Patterico's Pontifications, The Moderate Voice, damnum absque injuria, The Sideshow, National Review, Human Events, PointofLaw.com, Associated Press, danieldrezner.com, euphoricreality.net, The Therapist, Daily Pundit, Vox Baby, The Reaction, JunkYardBlog, Searchlight Crusade, The Glittering Eye, Classical Values and GOP and the City
hughhewitt.com:The Big Sulk — If you live in Orange County, California …
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Confirm Them, The Corner on National …, Daly Thoughts, QandO, chicagoboyz.net and Steve Clemons
Patrick Ruffini / Patrick Ruffini '05:Coalition of the Chillin': SCOTUS Division
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bRight & Early, Southern Appeal, TMH's Bacon Bits, Stop The ACLU, PoliPundit.com and Decision '08
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.
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:
Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq attacks — Offensives launched against insurgents in western province — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine have been killed in attacks in Iraq, military officials said Tuesday. — The deaths were announced on the same …
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Prosecutor Thought Libby Deliberately Failed To Intervene On Reporter's Behalf — A special prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity concluded earlier this year that the Vice President's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, deliberately failed to intervene …
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Associated Press:
Dad: Politics had no role in death — Father says OU student who blew self up meant no harm to others — NORMAN, Okla. - A University of Oklahoma student who died when an explosive device he was carrying detonated near a packed football stadium wasn't politically motivated, his father said Monday.
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Jon Dougherty / WorldNetDaily:Oklahoma bomber had jihad material
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The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Gateway Pundit, JunkYardBlog, Clayton Cramer's BLOG and Classical Values
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 …
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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The Anchoress
Weekly Standard:
One Code to Rule Them All — FOOL ME ONCE, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. When it comes to detaining prisoners seized in Iraq, Afghanistan and on the other fronts of the terror war, the Pentagon's "just-trust-us" mentality continues to undercut American strategy.
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The Washington Monthly
Investor's Business Daily:
Schumer's Plumbers — Politics: Staff members for a champion of the right to privacy and a leading critic of identity theft fraudulently obtained the credit report of a rising black political star. Your turn for tough questions, Sen. Schumer. — While the media focus …
