On October 3, 2005, Harriet Miers was nominated for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President George W. Bush to replace retired Associate...
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Miers Withdrew as Supreme Court Nominee". NPR.org. "Harriet Miers withdrawal letter". msnbc.com. October 27, 2005. "CNN.com - Miers withdraws Supreme...
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entered in the Senate's record. There have been 37 unsuccessful nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States. Of these, 11 nominees were rejected in...
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3, Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers to succeed O'Connor. However, Miers withdrew her nomination on October 27 after facing significant...
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justices to the Supreme Court. Nominations to the Supreme Court are considered to be official when the Senate receives a signed nomination letter from the...
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The nomination and confirmation of justices to the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps, the framework for which is set forth in the...
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with President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers in 2005. The Senate may also fail to act on a nomination, which expires at the end of the...
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the president's initial choice, Harriet Miers, withdrew herself from the confirmation process. Before Bush chose Miers, Alito's name was among those frequently...
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the following month. Only one woman, Harriet Miers, has been nominated to the court unsuccessfully. Her nomination to succeed O'Connor by George W. Bush...
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Samuel Alito (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Roberts's nomination to fill O'Connor's seat and instead nominated Roberts to the Chief Justiceship. On October 3, Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace...
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Stephen Breyer. President Bush's second nominee to replace O'Connor, Harriet Miers, withdrew before a vote; Bush's third nominee to replace O'Connor was...
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Robert Bork (category Unsuccessful nominees to the United States Supreme Court)
October 2005, Bork publicly criticized the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, saying her nomination was "a disaster on every level." On June...
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Nathan Hecht (category Chief Justices of the Texas Supreme Court)
Miers to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Hecht became nationally known as a strong supporter of White House Counsel Miers...
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Sandra Day O'Connor (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
White House Counsel Harriet Miers to replace O'Connor. After much criticism and controversy over her nomination, on October 27, Miers asked Bush to withdraw...
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Consuelo Callahan (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
O'Connor seat, the other being White House Counsel Harriet Miers, whom Bush nominated. On October 27, 2005, Miers withdrew her name from consideration and again...
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Brett Kavanaugh (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Assistant to the President and White House staff secretary, succeeding Harriet Miers. In that position he was responsible for coordinating all documents...
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Bruce Fein (section Court cases)
the FISA court, incensed Fein enough to propose censure or even impeachment of Bush. He ridiculed Harriet Miers's Supreme court nomination, and was sharply...
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Alberto Gonzales (category Justices of the Texas Supreme Court)
nominated Harriet Miers as associate justice, to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. On October 27, 2005, Miers withdrew her nomination, again renewing...
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Edith Brown Clement (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
Bush chose White House Counsel Harriet Miers as his nominee to succeed O'Connor, but after Miers withdrew her nomination, some sources reported that Clement...
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Neil Gorsuch (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
and White House Counsel Harriet Miers. On May 10, 2006, President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch to the seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...
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appellate court judgeships were Federalist Society members. The Bush administration was harshly criticized for the decision to nominate Harriet Miers to the...
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Following the withdrawal of Harriet Miers' nomination for that post, and prior to the nomination of Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Alito...
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to withdraw. After President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Boston Globe reported that Republican conservative...
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Presidency of George W. Bush (section Supreme Court)
United States Supreme Court. Cheney and White House Counsel Harriet Miers selected two widely respected conservatives, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge...
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George W. Bush (section Supreme Court)
2005, Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers to succeed O'Connor; however, Miers withdrew her nomination on October 27 after encountering significant...
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Charles Krauthammer (section Supreme Court nominations)
George W. Bush's 2005 nomination of Harriet Miers to succeed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He called the nomination of Miers a "mistake" on several...
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Maureen Mahoney (category Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States)
the United States. Harriet Miers' withdrawal of her Supreme Court nomination made Mahoney a possible candidate for the Supreme Court in 2005. However,...
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John D. Bates (category Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia)
official biography Presidential Nomination: John D. Bates Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives v. Harriet Miers, et al., Civil Action No...
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withdrew) H.R. McMaster, U.S. National Security Advisor (2017–2018) Harriet Miers, White House Counsel (2005–2007), White House Deputy Chief of Staff...
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Counsel Harriet Miers attended. Miers's conservative Christian views and relative judicial obscurity made her nomination to the Supreme Court controversial...
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