You'd think after being part of the team that recommended judicial nominees to Bush, she would realize just how she measures up and what the hearings would be like.
Gee, maybe she's dumb like Bush.
[Jonathan Adler 10/19 05:51 PM]
I’ve heard from more than one former administration attorney who thinks I’ve backtracked too much on Miers’ work on judicial nominations. They strongly suggest that she was not that involved in judicial selection before she became White House Counsel. Writes one:
First, you cannot look at this chart and say Miers was involved in nominations after July 2003. There is often a substantial time lag between the Judicial Selection Committee's decision that a nominee be recommended to the president and the nomination. The FBI and OLP background checks occur after POTUS OKs the nomination but before the nomination is made. If there are political issues requiring Hill negotiations, the delay could be longer than the 2 months the FBI takes. So for example Janice Rogers Brown, Brett Kavanaugh, and Diane Sykes were all approved before July 2003 even though nominated later. Miers had absolutely nothing to do with them.
Miers and Judicial Nominees
[Jonathan Adler 10/19 12:27 PM]
In this prior post, I suggested that Miers could not have played a role in the vetting of many appellate judicial nominees because so few were nominated between July 2003. This was an error. There were several nominated since then. (See the full list here.) However, it is worth reiterating that there have been few nominees since she became White House Counsel. Thus, while she may have participated in the review of various nominees — including Janice Rogers Brown, Brett Kavanaugh, Thomas Griffith, Diane Sykes and some others — she has overseen the review and selection of hardly any. As a final note, I would add that multiple individuals who worked on judicial nominations while Miers was in the White House — but before she became White House Counsel — have told me they do not recall her having much of a role during that time.
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