To: jpl
I remember well the howling Bush got for nominating Harriet Miers. Thanks to all the republican uproar (Laura Ingraham being one screaming the loudest), Miers withdrew and we got Roberts.
Thanks...thanks a lot.
27 posted on
06/25/2015 9:23:44 AM PDT by
jackv
(The darkness hates the light!)
To: jackv
I remember well the howling Bush got for nominating Harriet Miers. Thanks to all the republican uproar (Laura Ingraham being one screaming the loudest), Miers withdrew and we got Roberts Alito. Thanks...thanks a lot.W initially nominated Roberts to replace O’Connor when she retired. When Renquist died, Bush withdrew Roberts’ nomination for Associate Justice and resubmitted it for Chief Justice. He simultaneously nominated Miers for Associate Justice. Who knows but that the vote would have been 7-2 had Miers been there instead of Alito . . .
41 posted on
06/25/2015 9:41:13 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: jackv
No, when Miers withdrew Alito was appointed to the court, not Roberts.
47 posted on
06/25/2015 9:49:35 AM PDT by
bimboeruption
("Occupy till I come" ~ OPORD issued by CIC Jesus Christ)
To: jackv
I remember well the howling Bush got for nominating Harriet Miers. Thanks to all the republican uproar (Laura Ingraham being one screaming the loudest
No, Roberts was appointed first. We got Samuel Alito instead of Harriet Miers. And Alito has been the third most solid justice since (after Scalia and Thomas).
56 posted on
06/25/2015 1:22:58 PM PDT by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
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