Harriet Miers may save her nomination with a sound performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The withdrawal of Ms Miers may even come to be seen a turning point.
Conservatives are furious not just about the Miers nomination, but also about government spending and Iraq.
Harriet Miers withdrew her 2005 high court nomination before the ABA could release its evaluation.
It ended abruptly with his announcement of the Harriett Miers nomination to the Supreme Court.
The Harriet Miers debacle has weakened the special relationship between Mr Bush and the conservatives.
Bush nominated Miers to serve on the Supreme Court but later withdrew her nomination.
Miers thanked him four days later, but noted she had not had much time to focus on the issue.
Bad appointments (Don Rumsfeld, Mike Brown and the near disaster of Harriet Miers) and poor communication skills prevented a higher grade.
His choice of Ms Miers a nice but ineffectual woman of no fixed views led to an open revolt from Mr Bush's base.
The problem for Mr Bush is that Ms Miers's withdrawal and the fuss about Plamegate compound a picture of incompetence and sleaze.
Miers doesn't have much of a paper record for critics to examine.
Copland said he hopes Miers, with her experience representing companies and managing a large law firm, brings a free-market approach to her analysis.
The second bit of good news is that Harriet Miers's withdrawal provided Mr Bush with an opportunity to choose a more appropriate candidate.
The Harriet Miers debacle opened up cracks within the Republican Party that had always been there, but had been calked over for four-and-half years.
Leahy subpoenaed former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former Rove aide Sara Taylor to testify about what they knew about the attorney firings.
"The decision-makers in this case were the attorney general and the counsel to the president, " Sampson said, referring to former White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
Social conservatives may be steamed, but business executives will have little to complain about if Harriet Miers takes a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Miers refused to show up for a congressional subpoena or to hand over documents relating to the firing of a large number of U.S. attorneys.
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Miers had an active practice throughout those years, representing large corporations as well as George W. Bush when he ran the Texas Rangers baseball team.
Chafetz noted that House Democrats also pursued the case against Miers and Bolten in court, finally reaching a compromise settlement after Bush left office in 2009.
That experience, says a lawyer who knows Miers well, should lead her to interpret the law strictly without bending it to fit larger notions of social equity.
While that makes Miers sound a bit like the coalition-building Sandra Day O'Connor, who's retiring from the court, LaBoon said Miers would not play a similar role.
But Sampson concluded, "None of the above obstacles are insuperable, " suggesting instead "the replacement of a limited number of U.S. attorneys, " not the wholesale changes Miers wanted.
The White House offered instead to allow presidential adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and others to be interviewed in private by congressional committees.
He tells me that one of his graduate students, Ian Miers, even hesitated for a time to work on the Zerocoin research for fear of its political implications.
Locke Liddell's LaBoon said Miers will make an excellent judge.
When he appoints people like Ms Miers or Michael Brown, the erstwhile horse-expert whom he put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it returns to haunt him.
It's difficult to predict how Miers will decide such cases if she lands on the court, says James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute.
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