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Video: Bush Meets Miers Supporters
Watch video of President Bush's Oct. 17 appearance with Texas supporters of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court.
By washingtonpost.com Editors | October 17, 2005; 12:17 PM ET | Comments (39)
Video: President Bush Stresses Miers's Qualifications
Click to see Miers-related excerpts from this morning's White House news conference.
By washingtonpost.com Editors | October 4, 2005; 12:48 PM ET | Comments (6)
The Morning After
The nomination stories by major morning papers focus on the only visible activity in the campaign for the court, the president's meeting with Senate leaders yesterday. In The Washington Post, Dan Balz and Mike Allen stress disagreement between Democrats and Republicans over the nature of "consultation" required. "Unless Bush shares the names of potential nominees, they [Democrats] say, the process will have been a charade that could affect the confirmation battle. "There has to be more consultation," Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said after the meeting. "This was only a first step."Republicans argue that the consultation underway now is unprecedented and dispute the notion that the White House should be sharing names, the Post says. Newsday's Tom Brune highlights the same theme, the disagreement over the depth of consultation, as do Jeanne Cummings and John D. McKinnon in the Wall Street Journal. The New...
By Fred Barbash | July 13, 2005; 05:59 AM ET | Email a Comment
