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    • October 27, 2005 | You tell 'em, Harry
    Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on this morning's withdrawal of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court: The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers...

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    October 25, 2005 | The 'Living' Constitution: Resolved
    There has been a lot of fuss lately about two approaches to Constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court. "Original intent" supporters think the justices should transport themselves back in time...

    By Bob | Read Article | Comments (0)

    October 21, 2005 | Fitzgerald goes online; Wilsons go to court
    The indispensable Raw Story points to two remarkable developments in Novak-Plame-Libby-Rove-gate today. First, WaPo's Dan Froomkin notes that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has launched an official web site on the...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (0)

    October 20, 2005 | "The White House is so irrational that who knows?"
    So says one of the strategists working with the White House to shepherd the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination through the Senate, as reported by Byron York on the National...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (1)

    October 12, 2005 | Blowing the call
    So new Chief Justice John Roberts says he wants to be an umpire. Fair enough, I guess. I just hope he does a much, much better job than the umpires...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (0)

    The staffers are revolting
    Conservative opposition to the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court continues to mount. The NY Times reports that aides to 6 of the 10 Republican Senators on the...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (1)

    October 09, 2005 | Tax shelter sleaze at Miers' Texas law firm
    TaxProf Blog reports that while Harriet Miers was managing partner of Locke, Liddell and Sapp in Dallas, the firm provided dubious legal opinions supporting the legality of sleazy tax shelters...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (3)

    October 08, 2005 | Espionage Act now front and center in Novak-Plame-gate
    For the longest time, almost everyone, including people who know a whole lot about Novak-Plame-gate, were assuming that the only criminal statute that might have been violated by outing Valerie...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (8)

    October 06, 2005 | The Espionage Act - at last!
    This story in the NY Times is, for the most part, similar to a number of other reports indicating that Karl Rove has been summoned back to the Novak-Plame-gate grand...

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    "Is she the most qualified person? Clearly, the answer to that is 'no.'"
    Thus spake Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) of Harriet Miers today. And Lott's direct contradiction of what President Bush said yesterday was, apparently, one of the nicer things that conservatives said...

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