Anne Coulter, who’s been perhaps the most vocal opponent of Bush’s pick. Actually lots of people will be happy of course—mostly those in Bush’s own camp.
Miers to withdraw her nomination to U.S. Supreme Court
Under withering attack from conservatives, President George W. Bush ended his push Thursday to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement. Democrats accused him of bowing to the “radical right wing of the Republican Party.”
The White House said Miers had withdrawn her name because of a bipartisan effort in Congress to gain access to internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president. But politics played a larger role: Bush’s conservative backers had doubts about her ideological purity, and Democrats had little incentive to help the nominee or the embattled Republican president.
The withdrawal stunned Washington on a day when the capital was awaiting potential bad news for the administration on other fronts, including the possible indictments of senior White House aides in the CIA leak case. Earlier in the week, the U.S. military death toll in Iraq surpassed 2,000
Bush said he reluctantly accepted Miers’ decision to withdraw, after weeks of insisting that he did not want her to step down.
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