A Bid for Confirmation, Rather than Convictions
If President Bush's goal is to shift the Supreme Court in a more conservative direction, his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers yesterday signaled a desire to do so as quietly as possible. The nomination appeared designed primarily to avoid a major fight in the Senate and, said skeptics on the left and right, was made out of a position of political weakness, not strength.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405D.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405D.shtml
Starmail - 5. Okt, 14:37
