Even More on Miers

Edward Whelan at Bench Memos: Miers Should Withdraw Now---

I have tried hard to give the White House and Harriet Miers the benefit of the doubt on her nomination and to withhold judgment. But I can no longer do so. The damage from this disastrous selection has gotten worse and worse every day, and there is every reason to think that it will continue to compound.

The badly muddled thinking in the speech that Miers delivered in 1993 (and that the Washington Post reported on today) is only the latest in a mounting pile of evidence that makes it implausible to hold out hope any longer that Miers will prove to be a sound judicial conservative. I don’t see how anything she says at her hearing — or anything else that realistically emerges between now and then — can offset this evidence.

Read the rest.

And more from Edward Whelan in an article titled "Miers’s Muddle."

AP: Specter Gives Miers Heads Up on Questions

The text of Specter's letter is here.

AP: Senate May Probe Miers' Lottery Days

AP: Miers to Be Questioned on Gitmo Policy