{"id":5417,"date":"2005-10-03T07:15:24","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5417.html"},"modified":"2005-10-03T07:15:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T11:15:24","slug":"harriet-miers-gets-the-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/harriet-miers-gets-the-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Miers gets the nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple rumors were swirling last week about Harriet Miers being Bush&#8217;s top choice to replace Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor. For a change, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/03\/AR2005100300122.html\">the rumors were true<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president&#8217;s inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Before considering the Miers nomination on the merits, I think it&#8217;s worth noting that Miers helped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/12770486.htm\">lead the search<\/a> for this job. In other words, Miers helped choose herself for the Supreme Court &#8212; a page straight out of Dick Cheney&#8217;s playbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple rumors were swirling last week about Harriet Miers being Bush&#8217;s top choice to replace Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor. For a change, the rumors were true. President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president&#8217;s inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor on the Supreme Court, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}