Withdrawn

The White House has withdrawn its SCOTUS nominee, Harriet Miers. Hm. Guess she won’t make it on the highest bench after all.

UPDATE: NARAL Pro-Choice America’s response to the withdrawal.

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5 Responses to Withdrawn

  1. 1
    Ampersand says:

    I’m very happy for this victory – and for the black eye this gives the Bush administration. At the same time, I’m afraid the next nominee will be someone more substantial and harder to block.

  2. 2
    Robert says:

    Heh heh. Hello Donald Luttig.

  3. 3
    RonF says:

    Too conservative for the liberals, too liberal for the conservatives. Oversimplification, but fairly descriptive, I think.

    The President got away from his base on this one. I bet he doesn’t on the next one. I predict that the next nominee will be more explicitly conservative than Ms. Meirs, with a published record. I predict that they will have had some time on the bench, OR will have had a record of arguing constitutional law at the Federal appeals and possibly the Supreme Court level. I predict a much less smooth Senate Judiciary Committee hearing than Roberts got, with rhetoric that’s much more inflammatory than what we heard when Chief Justice Roberts was confirmed.

    I wonder if the Democrats will threaten a filibuster? I wonder if they’ll actually do it. The Republicans will probably at least force a real filibuster, where nothing else gets done while it’s going on. They may well force a showdown on the cloture rule. I predict that if Bush puts up a conservative candidate that satisfies his base, the Senate Republicans will dig in and do whatever they can to get him or her confirmed, regardless of how it affects the collegiality or functioning of the Senate.

    I think the gloves will come off, now.

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    Jake Squid says:

    I think the gloves will come off, now.

    The gloves have been worn up until now? Geeze. If that’s so, I wouldn’t be surprised to see violence on the floor and illicit dueling make a comeback.

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    alsis39 says:

    It’s sort of the Dance of the Seven Gloves, Jake. Either there’s another pair of gloves underneath the first pair, or by the time the last pair gets taken off the combatants have disappeared.

    Or some junk. :/