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...certain constitutional issues, former deputy Solicitor General John G. Roberts survived his nomination process to become Chief Justice. On the contrary, many of the senators that spoke with Miers were less than enthused with her knowledge of the Constitution. In fact, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, R-Pa., declared upon speaking with her that she needed “a crash course in constitutional law.” While we applaud Harriet Miers’ decision to withdraw, we hope that this doesn’t motivate President Bush to nominate a far-right justice...
Heyman insists that things have never got out of hand. "It's like school, so you have people getting closer and people growing apart, but we've never had a fight." And what about puberty, a specter almost as unmentionable as He Who Must Not Be Named? "There are crushes and romances here and there, but nothing to do with the central characters," Heyman says. "I've never caught anyone making out behind one of the backings or anything like that. I'm sure it's probably gone on, but I don't want to know about...
...announcement, she might have squeaked through a Senate where the President's party holds a five-seat majority. But she fumbled consistently. She seemed to confuse Chief Justices Earl Warren and Warren Burger in a meeting with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont. She left Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania with the impression that she supported the privacy rights in the 1965 Griswold decision. Then she corrected him. In an unprecedented move, she was basically told to redo her questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senators who met her emerged more and not less doubtful of her abilities...
Miers' troubles with Specter began with her courtesy calls on other Senators. "All Specter is hearing from colleagues on both sides is that they're getting nothing from Harriet but vague generalities and how wonderful the President is," says a friend of the Senator's. "None of these people are interested in that." Then, after a meeting last week in which Specter tried to walk Miers through traps she might encounter at her hearing, he spoke well of her to reporters. But she later phoned him and contradicted his recollection that she had expressed support for Griswold v. Connecticut...
...statement to TIME, Specter said he was "impressed" by the range of cases Miers had handled in civil practice. But his tone was wait and see: "I think the critical factor, as usual, will be the hearings--perhaps a little more important for Ms. Miers than others because her record is so thin...