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The lovably irascible Beldar, the Texas trial lawyer who is one of the two people on earth hotly defending the Miers nomination (the other being our buddy Hugh Hewitt), has posted a convenient link to articles written by Harriet Miers during one of her stints as a bar association honcho. He did this in part to address a charge I made on Hugh's show that Miers shouldn't be taken seriously because over the past 30 years of hot dispute on matters of constitutional law she hadn't published so much as an op-ed on a single topic of moment. Thank you,...

Beldar the Texan on Harriet Miers. HH: Joined now by my colleague on the blogging scene, Beldar, himself William Dyer, an old fashioned trial lawyer. He actually knows something about a courtroom, who blogs at Beldar.org, and he's been blogging a lot on Harriet Miers. Beldar, give us your assessment of the nominee. WD: Well, good afternoon, Hugh. I am one of the people who has been positive in my reaction to the nomination, and that may be because of my frame of reference, because like her, I'm a practicing lawyer. Because I've practiced in Texas where she's practiced,...

"If we had gotten back from the White House any kind of red flag, raised eyebrow, anything that said, 'Are you sure about this stuff?' we would have gone back to square one," Josh Howard, the program's executive producer, told the Los Angeles Times in an interview Friday. "The White House said they were authentic, and that carried a lot of weight with us."