Supreme Court Nominee Described As Very Loyal To The President
Harriet
Miers, at the time staff secretary, is seen on Aug. 6, 2001, briefing
President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Someone at MSNBC
is a wee bit subversive. Accompanying this AP article about Miers was this picture and caption:
Among a host of qualities that White House
counsel Harriet Ellan Miers shares with new Supreme Court Chief Justice
John Roberts is the apparent lack of any personal legal agenda. Known
for an exacting, no-nonsense style, Miers — like Roberts — tends to
avoid the limelight.
Once
described by White House chief of staff Andrew Card as “one of the
favorite people in the White House,” Miers has been there for President
Bush at every turn for more than a decade.
She
was Bush’s personal lawyer in Texas, took on the thankless job of
cleaning up the Texas Lottery when he was governor, and followed him to
Washington to serve as staff secretary, the person who controls every
piece of paper that crosses the president’s desk.
In 2004, Bush appointed her White House counsel, calling her “a
talented lawyer whose great integrity, legal scholarship and grace have
long marked her as one of America’s finest lawyers.” He articulated his
high regard for her more memorably during a 1996 awards ceremony when
he called her “a pit bull in size 6 shoes.”
Gee, August 6, 2001. I wonder what could be on the cover sheet of that
memo Bush is pretending to read. Maybe it was, oh, I don't know... BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN US
2001. Staff Secretary.
2005. Justice, United States Supreme Court.
Never let it be said that the GOP is not in favor of affirmative action. Priceless.
Among a host of qualities that White House
counsel Harriet Ellan Miers shares with new Supreme Court Chief Justice
John Roberts is the apparent lack of any personal legal agenda. Known
for an exacting, no-nonsense style, Miers — like Roberts — tends to
avoid the limelight.
