President Bush has announced his pick for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: White House Counsel Harriet Ellan Miers!!!
Article III Groupie has been caught a little flat-footed by this Dick Cheney-esque announcement, in which the picker has become the picked. Although this news does not come as a total surprise, since Harriet Miers was on the short-list, A3G doesn't know a great deal about Ms. Miers, since she was one of the few possible SCOTUS nominees who was not a sitting federal judge.
The limited gossip that A3G has heard, based on Harriet Miers's service as White House Counsel, is that she is "a workaholic" who can be "difficult to work for," due to her "tendency to micromanage." Well, it now looks like Miers has micromanaged her way to a Supreme Court nomination!
Please email A3G with tidbits and scuttlebutt about Harriet Miers. Thanks!
M-I-E-R-S is patronage for Souter! What a horrible disappointment!
Posted by: Jeff Durbin | October 03, 2005 at 01:17 PM
Apparently Ms. Miers is single. Could there be a Suitor for her at One First Street...?
Posted by: anonymous | October 03, 2005 at 10:56 AM
The only thing I've been able to discover about her is from Michael Isikoff's July 17, 2000 article for _Newsweek_, which says that "questions about Bush's military service haven't entirely disappeared. The Bushies' concern began while he was running for a second term as governor. A hard-nosed Dallas lawyer named Harriet Miers was retained to investigate the issue; state records show Miers was paid $19,000 by the Bush gubernatorial campaign. She and other aides quickly identified a problem--rumors that Bush had help from his father in getting into the National Guard back in 1968." Sort of a Kathy Bates in _Primary Colors_ character from the looks of it.
Posted by: R. Kevin Hill | October 03, 2005 at 10:15 AM
I feel like the time I was asked to order lunch for the office, but it was a set up and they killed at ate me instead.
Posted by: Someguy | October 03, 2005 at 09:18 AM
The SMU website states that Miers clerked for U.S. District Judge Joe E. Estes. Miers went to law school at SMU.
Posted by: Marsha Peterson | October 03, 2005 at 08:35 AM
press reports state that in the 70s, she clerked for a federal judge in Dallas, TX -- after graduating from SMU. Anyone know WHO she clerked for?
Posted by: robin shapiro | October 03, 2005 at 08:26 AM