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As long as Miers doesn't return from Camp David with a renomination in hand, and Card doesn't return having been nominated for the Treasury Secretaryship he covets, what's the problem?  If what the White House told us about Miers' role in the Roberts nomination process is accurate, and everything we've heard seems to bear that out, then she did a good job for the President and for conservatives.  There is nothing to suspect they won't give the President strong advice. White House insiders say that while President Bush has not yet had a "Come to Jesus" moment, the past ten days have come pretty...

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:...

Maura Corrigan has again surfaced in the buzz as being on the short list to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. U.S. News and World Report describes Corrigan as having "just what some Republicans are looking for: practical experience away from the bench and a firm commitment to judicial restraint." She graduated from Marygrove College in Detroit and then received her law degree cum laude from the University of Detroit Law School in 1973. Corrigan served as a law clerk for a year, then as an assisting prosecuting attorney for the state of, then worked for 10 years...

Two Michigan Supreme Court justices mentioned for U.S. high court 7/18/2005, 6:11 p.m. ET By DAVID EGGERT The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan Supreme Court justices are being mentioned as potential replacements for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. In recent days, the names of Maura Corrigan and Robert Young Jr. have popped up in a couple media outlets amid speculation about whom President Bush will appoint to the federal high court. Bush has said that conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are the kind of people he admires on the Supreme Court....