Posted on 10/28/2005 10:38:36 PM PDT by gpapa
WASHINGTON -- Managers of the failed Harriet Miers nomination for the Supreme Court set the actual day of her demise as Oct. 18, when conservative Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sam Brownback of Kansas called for the release of her work product as White House counsel to justify her confirmation.
Miers's strategists at that point felt the game was over because of inability to fight congressional demands for documents that the White House would not release. This was compounded when her visits to Republican senators went so badly that further sessions had to be suspended.
A footnote: Support among senators for Bush's nomination in place of Miers is concentrated on two conservative women: Federal Circuit Judge Karen Williams of Orangeburg, S.C., and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan.
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You know what Novak, who cares? Your the one that started all of this Plame, Flame bullcrap. Give up your source!
That is now called the "Miers Doctrine" if they ask for documents, withdraw. Well any excuse in a storm.
I agree Novak is useless Just go away Bob.
Must be a woman or we'll "Mier" your nominee. What happened to the best candidate?
FWIW...
Justice Maura D. Corrigan
Biographical Profile
Justice Maura Corrigan was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1998 and served two terms as Chief Justice from 2001-2004.
She graduated from Marygrove College in 1969 and from the University of Detroit Law School in 1973. She next worked as a law clerk to Michigan Court of Appeals Judge John Gillis and as a Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor. In 1979, she became an Assistant United States Attorney, serving as Chief of Appeals and later Chief Assistant United States Attorney. In 1989, Justice Corrigan became a partner at Plunkett & Cooney, a venerable Detroit law firm. In 1992, Governor John Engler appointed her to the Michigan Court of Appeals. She was twice elected to that court and was appointed as its Chief Judge from 1997-1998 until her election to the Supreme Court.
Justice Corrigan participates in numerous community and professional activities. Currently, she is President of the American Inns of Court at MSU Law School and holds memberships on the Boards of the International Center for Healing and the Law of the Fetzer Institute, Vista Maria, and the Pew Commission investigating foster care issues in the U.S. She recently completed a term as vice-president of the Conference of Chief Justices and co-chaired the Conference of Chief Justices Problem Solving Courts Committee. Justice Corrigan was appointed to the Michigan Law Revision Commission, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Attorney Advisory Committee, and the Local Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She held posts on the executive board of the Michigan Judges Association and the Judicial Advisory Board of the Center for Law and Organizational Economics at the University of Kansas Law School. She also served on the board of Boysville of Michigan (now Holy Cross). She is a long time member of the Federalist Society, Michigan Lawyers Chapter, and was president of the Incorporated Society of Irish American Lawyers and the Federal Bar Association, Detroit Chapter.
Justice Corrigan has won numerous awards for her achievements including: the Detroit News Michiganian of the Year Award (2005), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OCS) Award for significant improvements to Michigan's Child Support Enforcement Program (2002), the Federal Bar Association's Leonard Gilman Award to the Outstanding Practitioner of Criminal Law (1989), and the U.S. Department of Justice Director's Award for Outstanding Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (1985). She holds honorary doctorates from five Michigan colleges and universities: Eastern Michigan University, Michigan State University/Detroit College of Law, Northern Michigan University, University of Detroit-Mercy, and Schoolcraft College. She has been chosen as the Outstanding Alumna of UD-Mercy Law School and Marygrove College. She has coauthored a treatise on civil procedure and has published articles in professional journals and books, including the Wayne Law Review, University of Toledo Law Review, NYU Law Review and the Texas Review of Law and Politics. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School and at programs of the Michigan Judicial Institute, the American Bar Association Appellate Practice Institute, the Federal Bar Association, and the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General's Advocacy Institute.
Justice Corrigan is the widow of Wayne State University Distinguished Professor of Law Joseph D. Grano and is the mother of Daniel, a Wayne State University law student, Megan, a comedian with Second City in Chicago, and the mother-in-law of Michael Canale, business manager of Chicago's Annoyance Theater
cannibalism
Of the two, this one is my choice.
Williams, Karen J.
Born 1951 in Orangeburg, SC
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on January 27, 1992, to a seat vacated by Robert Foster Chapman; Confirmed by the Senate on February 27, 1992, and received commission on March 2, 1992.
Education:
Columbia College, B.A., 1972
University of South Carolina Law Center, J.D., 1980
Professional Career:
Private practice, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1980-1992
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Conservatives in the land, other than the single issue Roe crowd (although it is an important issue), have been spoiling for a fight with the cRats for a long time. Many of us have wanted them taken to the wood shed for their extra constitutional blocking of nominee's with the filibuster as the tool.
It is time for a day of reckoning. GW needs to finally go to the mattresses for those of us who put him in office. If the wishy/washy moderate gang of 7 won't hold the cRats feet to the fire then it is time for them to go on the record by their votes and not their back room deals.
Out them all and let the folks back home make the decision to replace them or not.
Either the Republicans, with a Republican President are the majority party and act like it or it is time for them to be the loyal opposition again.
Of course that is just my humble opinion. I gave up on the GOP quite some time ago as an affiliated "party member", however still vote for them as the only viable alternatives to what the cRats have been offering up all my life. And it has been a fairly long one so far with having voted in 20 general election cycles.
"Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan"
Which would screw michigan, because it would leave granholm to name her replacement.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has approached Republican fund-raisers in her home state of Texas to test the waters for a possible 2008 presidential nomination, but party sources believe she is mainly interested in a vice presidential nomination. Supporters describe Hutchison as saying that if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Democratic nominee, the Republicans must consider putting a woman on their ticket.
I think Senator Hutchinson and I need to have a talk about what party she wants to belong to. True feminists do not need or desire affirmative action.
We don't "have" to do anything if Hillary is on the ticket. Geraldine didn't help the Dems, Hillary won't help the Dems, and YOU won't help the Republican Party if we're foolish enough to have you as Vice. You're struggling as it is to recruit top candidates for '06, please tell me why, other than your sex, you have a right to that slot on the presidential ticket.
That's how we got the Miers nomination...the "woman's seat"; thanks to Reagan.
It seems "The Stupid Party" is well named.
Her performance with her coaches is my guess. I doubt George W would have dumped her for ideological issues.
I only saw Coats on TV once, too. He was almost invisible during the last few weeks.
Agree.....
Michael Savage cursed Miers. The very day she was nominated, he took to the airways to denounce the pick as a betrayal of Bush's Conservative base. Although I was skeptical when I first started listening to him, I must say Savage has been making a lot of firsts latelty. Another key one was barely 4 hours after the "threat" to the NYC subways was announced, he called it a hoax and a phony on the air. 3/4 of his callers thought he was way off base. Not until 6 days later was it confirmed that it indeed was a hoax.
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