Harriet Miers may save her nomination with a sound performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Harriet Miers withdrew her 2005 high court nomination before the ABA could release its evaluation.
The Harriet Miers debacle has weakened the special relationship between Mr Bush and the conservatives.
Bad appointments (Don Rumsfeld, Mike Brown and the near disaster of Harriet Miers) and poor communication skills prevented a higher grade.
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.
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.
But we do see these kind of pent-up frustrations, the sign of failure to deliver on expectations, the failure to deliver the orthodoxy of the Social Security plan, the nomination of Harriet Miers, a disappointment.
The House Judiciary Committee found Joshua Bolten , Mr Bush's chief of staff, and Harriet Miers , the former White House counsel, to be in contempt for not testifying to Congress about last year's sacking of nine federal prosecutors.
Harriet Miers, the president's former White House counsel, exploring with high-ranking officials of the Justice Department, the removal of all federal prosecutors so that the White House could have a free hand filling those ranks with nothing but political loyalists.
Altmire, who lost a primary battle to colleague Rep. Mark Critz after redistricting landed the pair in the same district, told O'Brien that he voted in favor of contempt because it was consistent with his vote to hold Bush administration White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt in 2008.
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They note that President George W. Bush's Justice Department refused to take any action after a Democratic-controlled House voted in early 2008 to hold then-White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt for actions relating to the controversial dismissal of several U.S. prosecutors.
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