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<div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">=</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Rather memogate</font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">THE LEGACY</font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>When the panel report finally came out in January 2005<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, it did not determine whether the documents were real</span>, but it did blame Mapes and three other CBS producers for failing to properly vet them. CBS fired Mapes and asked the three others to resign. All three threatened to sue and were subsequently paid settlements to stay quiet about the story.</b></font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rather was spared (a humiliating forensic examination revealed his virtual absence from the reporting process), but he agreed to resign from the CBS Evening News in the spring. Mapes went home to Dallas and began writing her book-length defense.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But the CBS episode wasn’t quite the end of the Guard story. There was a bizarre postscript: the failed nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005. One year after the fateful 60 Minutes segment aired, two FBI agents paid a visit to the Manhattan apartment of Larry Littwin, the former Lottery Commission executive director. If he were cleared to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the agents asked, what might he say about Miers’s involvement with GTECH during her time as chair of the commission?&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to&nbsp;<b>Jerome Corsi, who had resurfaced, post-Kerry, as one of Miers’s fiercest critics</b>, what Littwin proposed to allege was quite a lot: that more than $160,000 in legal fees Miers collected from Bush in the nineties were a<b>&nbsp;de facto payoff for maintaining the quid pro quo agreement with Ben Barnes and GTECH.</b></span></font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Regardless of the legitimacy of these allegations, White House officials were paying attention, in part because they were coming from the right. Miers’s nomination was already in deep trouble by the time Littwin emerged. But Corsi remains convinced to this day that the threat of Littwin’s testimony was the last straw for Miers. According to him, it was the GTECH deal, and not the CBS memos, that could have been the real smoking gun against Bush. “The day after they validated that Littwin was going to be called to the Senate Judiciary Committee, that’s when she pulled her nomination,” Corsi told me.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In 2007 Rather filed his own lawsuit, implicating Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone and CBS president Les Moonves in a vast corporate cover-up to make the Guard story go away, placate the Bush White House, and put a troublesome newsman out to pasture.</b>&nbsp;He asked for $70 million. The money, however, was largely symbolic. More than anything, Rather hoped the lawsuit would finally prove that he had been unfairly hung out to dry.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000"></font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">“It was clear he wanted to use his size to project a strong or menacing sense of himself,” says Wayne Slater, Austin bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. Indeed, Allbaugh’s propensity to turn bright red when enraged led Bush to give Allbaugh the nickname<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;“Pinky.”&nbsp;</span>But if anyone other than W. dared to call him by that name, Allbaugh would whirl around and growl, “I will pinch your head off,” and make pinching motions with his fingers.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">His loyalty to Bush, a man who prizes that quality above all others in his subordinates, was unquestioned. “There isn’t anything more important than protecting him and the first lady,” Allbaugh once told the Washington Post from the governor’s office. “I’m the heavy, in the literal sense of the word.”</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">Ironically, the other heavy was a small, refined woman by the name of Harriet Miers, hired, as was Allbaugh, by the tough Dallas lawyer Jim Francis, then Bush’s campaign chairman and a longtime friend of Bush’s father. As general counsel,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Miers was in charge of fending off legal problems that threatened Bush with adverse publicity.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">In 1999, Allbaugh left the governor’s office to take over the daily management of Bush’s presidential campaign. He headed up a staff of 180, controlled spending, and spoke with Bush several times a day.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">One potential problem facing the campaign was the rumor that Bush’s father had pulled strings to get his candidate son out of Vietnam service and into a safe&nbsp;</font><font size="3" color="#ff0000"><b>Texas Air National Guard</b></font><font size="3" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">&nbsp;unit in 1968. There were even reports that Bush went AWOL long before his compulsory flying days were up.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The key players in keeping the lid on the&nbsp;</font><font size="3" color="#ff0000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Guard&nbsp;</font><font size="3" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">story were Allbaugh and Miers. In 2004, a year before Bush nominated Miers for the Supreme Court, Allbaugh told The New York Times, “She’s the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played.” Assigned to “investigate” Bush’s Guard service, Miers gave the governor a clean bill of health.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As part of his job, Allbaugh communicated directly with Adjutant General Daniel James III, the head of the Texas National Guard (later appointed by President George W. Bush to run the federal Air National Guard</span>). What remains unclear is whether he ordered James to dispose of any old Bush military files that might prove embarrassing, an order former Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett, head of a Guard efficiency task force, claims to have heard Allbaugh issue in a conversation on James’s speakerphone. Whatever was or was not done, the unexplained gaps in Bush’s National Guard service never became a central topic in the 2000 election. With his “iron triangle” of Rove on strategy, Hughes on P.R., and Allbaugh as the enforcer (plus an assist from the U.S. Supreme Court), Bush triumphed.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3" color="#000000">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Harriet Ellan Miers</b>&nbsp;submitted her resignation to President&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George W. Bush</a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">White House Counsel</a>&nbsp;on January 5, 2007.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010400778.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Miers was&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rnla.org/blog/PresidentStatement-Miers.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">nominated</a>&nbsp;by President George W. Bush October 3, 2005, as Associate Justice to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Supreme_Court" title="Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Supreme Court</a>&nbsp;to replace retiring Justice<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O'Connor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sandra Day O'Connor</a>. Miers nomination was&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051007-3.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">sent</a>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Senate</a>&nbsp;on October 7, 2005, but subsequently withdrawn "as a result of<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">conservative</a>&nbsp;opposition."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010400778.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Do-Over</b>
<b>"The Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers suffered another setback on [October 19, 2005,] when the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to resubmit parts of&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npr.org/documents/2005/oct/miers/miersquestionnaire.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">her judicial questionnaire</a>, saying various members had found her responses 'inadequate,' 'insufficient' and 'insulting'</b>," David E. Kirkpatrick&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nytimes.com/2005/10/20/politics/politicsspecial1/20confirm.html?hp&ex=1129867200&en=b52188964d41adce&ei=5094&partner=homepage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">wrote</a>&nbsp;in the October 20, 2005,&nbsp;<i>New York Times</i>.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"At one key juncture after another, Miers has faltered where Roberts glided. Her courtesy calls on the Judiciary Committee's top two senators prompted conflicting tales of curious comments that she may or may not have made. Her answers to the committee's questionnaire included a misinterpretation of constitutional law and were deemed so inadequate that the panel asked her to redo it. She revealed one day that her D.C. law license had been temporarily suspended -- and said the next day that the same thing had happened in Texas -- because of unpaid dues," Charles Babington&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/20/AR2005102002051.html?nav=hcmodule" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">wrote</a>&nbsp;in the October 21, 2005,&nbsp;<i>Washington Post</i>.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Bush and Miers in a Nutshell</b>
<b>"George Bush wants Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court for one reason, and one reason alone. The president -- and his minions -- want to concentrate an unprecedented amount of power in the executive branch. And Bush wants to use that power to further take away your rights, to use the military to keep order here at home -- and God knows what else</b>." --<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002394.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><i>Attytood</i></a>, October 5, 2005.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Bush Knew</b>
"... she was right there for half the cases that she would be asked to decide on, from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">torture policy</a>&nbsp;to third-trimester&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abortion" title="Abortion" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">abortions</a>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patriot_Act_I" title="Patriot Act I" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Patriot Act</a>&nbsp;to releases of documents to assisted suicide. To not believe that Bush knows is to be played for a fool once again." --<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/10/harriet-miers-gets-ready-for-her.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><i>The Rude Pundit</i></a>, October 3, 2005. [Caution: Article contains objectionable language.]</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Miers handed Bush the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/August_6,2001,President%27s_Daily_Briefing_Memo" title="August 6, 2001, President's Daily Briefing Memo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">August 6, 2001, briefing memo</a></b>
When announcing Miers as Bush's Supreme Court nominee on Monday, October 3, 2005, the&nbsp;<i>New York Times</i>&nbsp;published a photo of Miers "going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch&nbsp;<i>in August 2001</i>, the caption reads,"&nbsp;<i>Editor & Publisher</i>Staff&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">reported</a>&nbsp;October 4, 2005. "<i>USA Today</i>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<i>Boston Globe</i>&nbsp;carried the photo labeled simply&nbsp;<i>2001</i>, but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date:&nbsp;<i>Aug. 6, 2001</i>."</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"Does that date sound familiar?,"&nbsp;<i>E&P</i>&nbsp;asks. "Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/9/11" title="9/11" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">9/11</a>, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous 'PDB' that declared that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Osama_Bin_Laden" title="Osama Bin Laden" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Osama Bin Laden</a>&nbsp;was 'determined' to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"As it turns out, yes, according to Tuesday's&nbsp;<i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Los Angeles Times</i>,"&nbsp;<i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">E&P</i>&nbsp;wrote. "An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency <font color="#ff0000">'Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential daily briefing' hinting at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terrorist" title="Terrorist" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">terrorist</a>&nbsp;plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.'"</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Valerie_Plame" title="Valerie Plame" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Valerie Plame</a></b>
"By nominating Harriet Miers for a seat on the Supreme Court, President Bush has not simply named a member of his political staff -- and his onetime personal lawyer -- for one of the most powerful positions in the nation; he has named a staff member who was likely privy to the most confidential of material as other White House staffers planned their leak of Valerie Plame’s identity as a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CIA" title="CIA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">CIA</a>&nbsp;agent." --Adele M. Stan,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10379" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><i>The American Prospect</i></a>, October 3, 2005.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Roe v. Wade</b>
"Miers' chief qualification for this job is loyalty to George W. Bush and the team. What the nomination means in larger terms for both law and society is the fifth vote on the court to overturn Roe v. Wade," Molly Ivins&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-22.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">wrote</a>&nbsp;October 5, 2005.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">See&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers:Hearings" title="Harriet E. Miers: Hearings" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harriet E. Miers: Hearings</a></p><hr style="background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); color: rgb(170, 170, 170); height: 1px; border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px;" /><table id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px;"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="font-size: 11.199999809265137px;">&nbsp;[<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Bush_Ultra-Loyalist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Bush Ultra-Loyalist</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Profiles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#White_House_Biography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">White House Biography</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#American_Bar_Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">American Bar Association</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Commercial_Litigator" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Commercial Litigator</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Tort_Reform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Tort Reform</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Judicial.22Vetting.22.26_Obsession_with_Detail" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Judicial "Vetting" & Obsession with Detail</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Issues.26_Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Issues & Controversies</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Gay_Rights" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Gay Rights</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Abortion" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Abortion</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Related_Links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Related Links</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Reaction_to_Nomination" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Reaction to Nomination</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Related_Links_2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Related Links</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Campaign_Contributions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Campaign Contributions</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#SourceWatch_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">SourceWatch Resources</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#On-Going_Coverage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">On-Going Coverage</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">8</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Profiles_2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">8.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Documents" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">8.2</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Documents</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers#Articles.26_Commentary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">8.3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Articles & Commentary</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bush_Ultra-Loyalist">Bush Ultra-Loyalist</span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"While her loyalty to Bush is unquestioned, Democrats publicly and Republicans privately wondered about her qualifications for the high court."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051004/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_scotus_51;ylt=AvIAtIzYpl6g7RsWPE0RKO5uCM0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[3]</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Miers, a Bush "longtime confidante," was formerly his personal lawyer in Texas and "came with him to the White House in 2001 as staff secretary, the person who screens all the documents that cross the president's desk. She was promoted to deputy chief of staff before Bush named her counsel after his reelection in November. She replaced&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alberto_R.Gonzales" title="Alberto R. Gonzales" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alberto R. Gonzales</a>, another longtime Bush confidant, who was elevated to attorney general."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001161.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[4]</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Miers also "served as general counsel for the transition team of Governor-elect George W. Bush in 1994."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.legalreforminthenews.com/leaders/Miers/Miers_bio.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[5]</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">According to her&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Justice_Partnership" title="American Justice Partnership" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Justice Partnership</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legalreforminthenews.com/leaders/Miers/Miers_bio.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">profile</a>, in the White House Miers:</p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"was appointed Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary on January 20, 2001. As Staff Secretary, Ms. Miers acted as 'the ultimate gatekeeper for what crosses the desk of the nation's commander in chief.' In addition to this important role, Ms. Miers supervised more than 60 employees in four departments."</li></ul><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"was named Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff [in 2003]. As part of the Office of the Chief of Staff, she was a top domestic policy advisor to the President."</li></ul><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"has served as Counsel to the President since February 2005. In this role, she has served as the top lawyer to the President and the White House, and in particular has been the principal advisor [for]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush%27s_judicial_nominees" title="Bush's judicial nominees" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">judicial nominations</a>."</li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Alberto Gonzales was recommended to Bush as counsel in the Texas Governorship by Harriet Miers ...."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=306" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[6]</a></dd></dl><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Bush was "reaching into his loyal inner circle for a pick that could reshape the nation's judiciary for years to come."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/supreme_court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[7]</a></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles">Profiles</span></h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="White_House_Biography">White House Biography</span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Upon her nomination as White House Counsel November 17, 2004, the White House&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://usinfo.state.gov/special/transition/transition_nominees/miers.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">issued</a>&nbsp;the following biography:</p><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Most recently, Miers served as Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Prior to that, she was Co-Managing Partner at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Locke_Liddell%26_Sapp,LLP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP</a>. Previously, she was President of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Locke,Purnell,Rain%26_Harrell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell</a>, where she worked from 1972 until 1999. From 1995 until 2000, she was chair of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_Lottery_Commission&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Texas Lottery Commission (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas Lottery Commission</a>. In 1992, Harriet became the first woman president of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_State_Bar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Texas State Bar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas State Bar</a>, and in 1985 she became the first woman president of the Dallas Bar Association. She also served as a Member-At-Large on the Dallas City Council. Harriet received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University."</dd></dl><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Additionally, on November 17, 2005, her nomination&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/11/20041117-5.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">profile</a>&nbsp;included the following statement by President Bush:</p><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Harriet Miers is a trusted adviser, on whom I have long relied for straightforward advice. Harriet has the keen judgment and discerning intellect necessary to be an outstanding Counsel. She is a talented lawyer whose great integrity, legal scholarship, and grace have long marked her as one of America's finest lawyers. I have deep respect for Harriet and look forward to her continued counsel in this new role."</dd></dl><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="American_Bar_Association">American Bar Association</span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Miers "concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial litigation, including antitrust and trade regulations and intellectual property disputes."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.abanet.org/lpm/mdp/articles/mdparticle12216_front.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[8]</a></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Commercial_Litigator">Commercial Litigator</span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"Ms. Miers had a distinguished career as a trial litigator, representing such clients as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" title="Microsoft" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Microsoft</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walt_Disney_Company" title="Walt Disney Company" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walt Disney Company</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SunGard_Data_Systems_Inc." title="SunGard Data Systems Inc." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">SunGard Data Systems Inc.</a>&nbsp;Moreover, when she left her law firm of Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Ms. Miers was serving as Co-Managing Partner of the firm which had more than 400 lawyers."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.legalreforminthenews.com/leaders/Miers/Miers_bio.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[9]</a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">As a "commercial litigator," Miers also represented&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republic_National_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Republic National Bank (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republic National Bank</a>.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1102944936042" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[10]</a></p><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tort_Reform" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tort Reform</span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Miers was the&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legalreforminthenews.com/utility.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">keynote speaker</a>&nbsp;April 5, 2005, before the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Tort Reform Association</a>:</p><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Harriet Miers, Counsel to the President, echoed the need for legal reform, saying that the President fully supports reforms to end lawsuit abuse. She pointed out that while the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Class_Action_Fairness_Act&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Class Action Fairness Act (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Class Action Fairness Act</a>&nbsp;took almost seven years to pass in the Congress, the President intends to make comprehensive legal reform a priority in his second term."</dd></dl><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judicial.22Vetting.22.26_Obsession_with_Detail">Judicial "Vetting" & Obsession with Detail</span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">When she&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1102944936042" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">moved</a>&nbsp;into position as to White House Counsel:</p><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"She did raise some eyebrows early in Bush's first term by arguing against eliminating the American Bar Association's 50-year-old role of vetting potential federal judiciary nominations, a move led by Gonzales. (The ABA was removed from the vetting process in March 2001.)"</dd></dl><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Her critics say the problem goes beyond what Miers does or doesn't know about policy -- and right back to a near-obsession with detail and process."</dd></dl><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"'She failed in [Andrew]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_H.Card,Jr." title="Andrew H. Card, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Card</a>'s office for two reasons,' the official says. 'First, because she can't make a decision, and second, because she can't delegate, she can't let anything go. And having failed for those two reasons, they move her to be the counsel for the president, which requires exactly those two talents.' ... Responds White House Deputy Counsel&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_G.Leitch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David G. Leitch (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David G. Leitch</a>: 'She certainly delegates. She couldn't possibly dream of doing any of these jobs, this job or the job she has now, without delegating.'"</dd></dl><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Issues.26_Controversies">Issues & Controversies</span></h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Miers "has never been a judge, and therefore lacks a long history of judicial rulings that could reveal ideological tendencies. Her positions on such ideologically charged issues as abortion and affirmative action are not clear. ... Her elevation to the court along with Judge Roberts would add an unknown judicial element to the nine-justice body. Ms. Miers lacks a track record that would shed light on her views." Chief Justice&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_G.Roberts,Jr." title="John G. Roberts, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John G. Roberts, Jr.</a>&nbsp;"declined to be specific about his views on several key issues during his recent Senate confirmation hearings."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/politics/politicsspecial1/03cnd-scotus.html?hp&ex=1128398400&en=4dab3da8ec1406ad&ei=5094&partner=homepage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[11]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jerry D. Turner,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/05/10/ana05030.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Harriet Miers Story: DeLay, TRMPAC, Texas Lottery Scandal and Cleansing Bush's Guard Records,"</a>&nbsp;<i>BuzzFlash</i>, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"One case involved a unique law - passed under former Gov. George Bush - that blocked Texas consumers from recovering $6 billion in overcharges on car loans and allowed dealers to keep kickbacks secret. Two consumer groups have called on the Texas Legislature to repeal it. Locke, Purnell, Rain & Harrell were defendants of the litigation, which included auto dealers in Texas."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=306" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[12]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002383.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"New Supreme Court nominee's ties to Bush's National Guard scandal,"</a>&nbsp;<i>Attytood</i>/<i>Philadelphia Daily News</i>&nbsp;Blog, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Miers was also Chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission and responsible for a chain of events involving&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gtech.com/about_gtech/interlott.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">GTech</a>, which ran the Texas Lottery, former Lt. Governor&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60319-2004Sep3.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Ben Barnes</a>, and&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texnews.com/texas97/gtech021397.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">accusations of kick-backs and illegal contracts</a>. Yes, that Ben Barnes, who says he helped George Bush get into the National Guard. His original deposition on that subject was given in 1999, during this Texas Lottery Commission investigation, and has been permanently sealed."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=306" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[13]</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gay_Rights"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gay_rights" title="Gay rights" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gay Rights</a></span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AMERICAblog" title="AMERICAblog" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AMERICAblog</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Aravosis" title="John Aravosis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Aravosis</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/miers-responded-to-questionnaire-from.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">reported</a>&nbsp;October 3, 2005, that he had "received a document from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Campaign&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Human Rights Campaign (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Human Rights Campaign</a>&nbsp;that appears to be a 'gay rights'&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/miersquest.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">questionnaire</a>&nbsp;[issued by the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas, which] Harriet Miers filled out in 1989 when she was running for Dallas city council. (HRC says they got the document from a trusted source and thus believe it to be authentic.)"</li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"I'm not sure this questionnaire provides any definitive answers about Harriet Miers and gay rights - many of her answers aren't great - but it sure raises a number of questions. And I wouldn't want to be the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bush administration</a>&nbsp;right about now, trying to answer why their wonder candidate was sucking up to gay groups as early as the 1980s (not that there's anything wrong with that&nbsp;:-)," Aravosis commented.</dd></dl></dd></dl><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Following AMERCIAblog's posting, the Associated Press's Calvin Woodward&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/03/national/a172304D12.DTL" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">posted</a>&nbsp;"Miers Backed Gay Civil Rights" online:</li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers went on record favoring equal&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">civil rights</a>&nbsp;for gays when she ran for Dallas city council, and she said the city had a responsibility to pay for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AIDS</a>&nbsp;education and patient services.</dd></dl></dd></dl><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"But Miers opposed repeal of the Texas sodomy statute — a law later overturned by the court on which she will sit if confirmed — in a survey she filled out for a gay-rights group during her successful 1989 campaign."</dd></dl></dd></dl><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Abortion"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abortion" title="Abortion" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Abortion</a></span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"As president of the Texas State Bar in 1993, Harriet Miers urged the national American Bar Association to put the abortion issue to a referendum of the group's full membership. She questioned at the time whether the ABA should 'be trying to speak for the entire legal community' [of about 360,000 members] on an issue that she said 'has brought on tremendous divisiveness' within the ABA," Associated Press reporter Anne Gearen&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/03/D8D0MMQG0.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">wrote</a>&nbsp;October 3, 2005. "Miers was among a group of lawyers from the Texas bar and elsewhere who had argued that the ABA should have a neutral stance on abortion. ... The ABA's policy-making body overwhelmingly rejected the Texas lawyers' group's 1993 proposal to put the issue to a referendum by mail."</li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"'Our current position (in favor of abortion rights) has no meaning unless it is endorsed in fact by the membership' Miers said at the time."</dd></dl></dd></dl><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Kyleen Wright, president of an anti-abortion group then known as Texans United for Life, said in an interview that Miers donated $150 to the organization as a 'bronze patron' for its annual dinner in 1989."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051004/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_scotus_51;ylt=AvIAtIzYpl6g7RsWPE0RKO5uCM0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[14]</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_Links">Related Links</span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rnla.org/blog/MiersTalkingPoints10-3-05v2.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">RNLA Talking Points (1)</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rnla.org/blog/MiersTalkingPoints.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">RNLA Talking Points (2)</a>&nbsp;posted on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Lawyers_Association" title="Republican National Lawyers Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican National Lawyers Association</a>&nbsp;(RNLA) website.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sonja Steptoe,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1112940,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"A Sampling of the Writings of Harriet Miers. A look at the paper trail of President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee,"</a><i>Time</i>, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/003439.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miers As Enron's Ken Lay,"</a>&nbsp;<i>NathanNewman.org</i>, October 3, 2005: "Where under her leadership, the firm had to pay a&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bankrupt.com/CAR_Public/000501.MBX" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">$22 million settlement for aiding a client in defrauding investors</a>..."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ryan Lizza,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2832" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Some Quick Thoughts on Harriet Miers,"</a>&nbsp;<i>The New Republic</i>, October 3, 2005. Andrew Sullivan&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2005_10_02_dish_archive.html#112836057199659158" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">commented</a>: "Miers's long affiliation with the ABA will serve up lots of interesting tidbits that are unlikely to please social and legal conservatives."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ryan Lizza,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2836" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Harriet's War on Poverty,"</a>&nbsp;<i>The New Republic</i>, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Anne Gearan,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051003/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_miers_abortion_1;ylt=AiJ_PSDdSyfxB1TpmxNO.wRuCM0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miers Led Bid to Revisit Abortion Stance,"</a>&nbsp;Associated Press (Yahoo! 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They paid Dallas lawyer Harriet Miers $19,000 to review the records."</li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Reaction_to_Nomination">Reaction to Nomination</span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">"She has a reputation for being loyal to this president, whom she has a long history of serving as a close adviser and in working to advance his objectives. In an administration intent on accumulating executive power, Ms. Miers' views on and role in these issues will be important for the Senate to examine." — Sen.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Patrick Leahy</a>, D-Vt., the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee."&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051003/ap_on_go_pr_wh/scotus_miers_quote_box_1;ylt=AhpjGkeJ0B4WOTHR.DOsNn5uCM0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[15]</a></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_Links_2">Related Links</span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051003/ap_on_go_pr_wh/scotus_miers_quote_box_1;ylt=AhpjGkeJ0B4WOTHR.DOsNn5uCM0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Reaction to Bush's High Court Nomination,"</a>&nbsp;Associated Press (Yahoo! 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It’s not clear Bush picked one,"</a>&nbsp;<i>The American Prospect</i>, October 4, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Will" title="George Will" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George Will</a>,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100400954_pf.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Can This Nomination Be Justified?"</a>&nbsp;<i>Washington Post</i>, October 5, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/ta052109.html" style="text-decoration: none; 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padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miers Gave to GOP Candidates, Democrats,"</a>&nbsp;Associated Press, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Harriet_Miers.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Campaign Contribution Search</a>,&nbsp;<i>Newsmeat</i>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/10/3/82655/5147" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); 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padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Harriet Miers"</a>&nbsp;biography,&nbsp;<i>Legal Reform in the News</i>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20040811.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Ask the White House: Harriet Miers,"</a>&nbsp;August 11, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Elisabeth Bumiller,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/politics/03cnd-scotus-profile.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"A Woman Of Low Profile In a Job High-Powered,"</a>&nbsp;<i>New York Times</i>, November 20, 2004 (reposted October 3, 2005).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michael A. Fletcher,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001161.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Quiet but Ambitious White House Counsel Makes Life of Law,"</a>&nbsp;<i>Washington Post</i>, June 21, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4304826.stm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Profile: Harriet Miers</a>, BBC, October 3, 2005: "Harriet Miers is part of the president's inner circle White House counsel Harriet Miers has been a trusted and loyal adviser to US President George Bush since the 1980s."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SupremeCourt/story?id=1170572" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Who Is Harriet Miers?"</a>&nbsp;ABC News, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Fred Barbash,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/2005/10/white_house_rel.html#more" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"White House Releases Profile of Harriet Miers,"</a>&nbsp;<i>Washington Post</i>, October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Joyce Saenz Harris,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/100405dnnatmiers.bab1b698.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Reflections of a lawyer-politician,"</a>&nbsp;<i>Dallas Morning News</i>, October 3, 2005 (originally published in&nbsp;<i>The Dallas Morning News</i>&nbsp;on July 28, 1991).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051003/miers_timeline_051003/20051003?hub=Specials" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Harriet Miers</a>, CTV News (Canada), October 3, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-profile4oct04,0,7005879.story?coll=la-home-headlines" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The President's 'Pit Bull'. Though said to be shy, the nominee is described as tenacious in her defense of Bush,"</a>&nbsp;<i>Los Angeles Times</i>, October 4, 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Peter Baker and R. Jeffrey Smith,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/04/AR2007010400778.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Miers Steps Down As White House Gears Up for Battle,"</a>&nbsp;<i>Washington Post</i>, January 5, 2007.</li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Documents">Documents</span></h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/11/20041117-15.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">News Release: "President Bush Names Harriet Miers as Top Counsel,"</a>&nbsp;White House, November 17, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20051003/ap_on_go_pr_wh/scotus_miers_text_1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Text of Remarks by Miers at White House</a>&nbsp;(posted by Associated Press), October 3, 2005.</li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.799999237060547px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles.26_Commentary"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Harriet_E.Miers:Articles%26_Commentary" title="Harriet E. 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