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Miers nominated to replace O onnor on Supreme Court
White House counsel is Bush's second high
court reccomendation in three months
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Bush named White House counsel
Harriet Miers to a Supreme Court in
transition Monday, turning to a long-
time loyalist without experience as
a judge or publicly known views on
abortion to succeed Justice Sandra
Day O'Connor.
Miers "will strictly interpret our
Constitution and laws. She will not
legislate from the bench," the presi-
dent said as the 60-year-old former
private attorney and keeper of
campaign secrets stood nearby in
the Oval Office.
Miers' was Bush's second selec-
tion in three months for vacancies
on a high court long divided on key
issues.
The announcement came shortly
before the president attended a cere-
mony marking John Roberts' new
tenure as the nation's 17th chief
justice.
"The wisdom of those who drafted
our Constitution and conceived our
nation as functioning with three
strong and independent branches has
proven truly remarkable," Miers said
at the White House before departing
for the Capitol and a confirmation
campaign already taking shape in
the Senate.
Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-
Tenn., said through his spokesman
he wanted a confirmation vote by
Thanksgiving, a compressed, seven-
week timetable by recent historical
standards.
Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, pledged
thoroughness.
"There needs to be, obviously, a
very thorough inquiry into her back-
ground as a lawyer and her activi-
ties, people who will know her on
the issues of character and integrity,
which we will find out," he said.
In conference calls and interviews,
the White House worked aggressively
during the day to tamp down concern
among conservatives determined, as
Bush has pledged, to turn the court
in a new direction.
Despite criticism, initial reac-
tion suggested Bush had managed
to satisfy many of the conservatives
who helped confirm Roberts without
inflaming Democrats who repeat-
edly warned against the selection of
an extreme conservative to succeed
O'Connor, who has voted to uphold
abortion rights and preserve affir-
mative action.
Several officials familiar with
Bush's consultations with Congress
said that Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada,
the Democratic leader, had recom-
mended that he consider Miers for
the vacancy.
In a written statement, Reid praised
the Dallas native as a "trailblazer
for women as managing partner of
a major Dallas law firm" and said he
would be glad to have a former prac-
ticing attorney on the court.
Frist greeted Miers by telling her,
"We're so proud of you." Sen. Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., the second-ranking
Republican in the Senate, issued a
statement saying he looked "forward
to Ms. Miers' confirmation."
Republicans hold a 55-44 majority
in the Senate, with one independent.
Barring a filibuster, they can confirm
Miers on the strength of their votes
alone.
Miers has served as an adviser to
White House photo by Paul Morse
President George W. Bush nominates White House Counsel Harriet Miers as an associate justice of the Supreme
Court during a statement Monday from the Oval Office.
Bush for more than a decade, in posi-
tions as varied as private attorney
chairwoman of the Texas Lottery
Commission and in the White
House.
When Bush decided to run for
governor of Texas in the early 1990s,
he turned to Miers to research his
own background for information
that his opponents might try to use
against him.
When terrorists struck the United
States in 2001, she was with him as
staff secretary on what had been a
routine trip to Florida.
While her loyalty to Bush is
unquestioned, Democrats publicly
and Republicans privately wondered
about her qualifications for the high
court.
"The president has selected a loyal
political ally without a judicial record
to sit on the highest court in the land,"
said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Abortion has overshadowed all over
issues in Supreme Court nominations
in recent years, and to the consterna-
tion of conservatives, Miers has scant
public record on the issue.
As president of the Texas State
Bar in 1993, Miers was a leader in an
unsuccessful fight to persuade the
American Bar Association to recon-
sider its pro-abortion rights stance by
submitting it to a nationwide refer-
endum.
At the time, she questioned whether
the group should "be trying to speak
for the entire legal community" on
an issue that she said "has brought
on tremendous divisiveness" within
the organization.
While Miers evidently did not
publicly state a view on the issue of
abortion at the time, one conserva-
tive cited the events to support her
nomination.
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