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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-03-05 02:51 PM
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Reid Urged Miers Selection
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If there is any truth behiind this theory ...could Reid have done it to start a conservative brawl? When you get to the page below, check out the links to the side of the story ...besides, if Bush listens to Reid ...well that could start a brawl!!!

October 3, 2005

he expected political brawl over President Bush’s second Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers might not ever take place – because it was a powerful Democrat, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who had urged her selection.

The senator from Nevada first hinted that he thought highly of Miers shortly before Bush announced the nomination of John Roberts for a seat on the Court.

Bush phoned Reid to tout Roberts, and Reid took the opportunity to tell the president that had had enjoyed working with Miers, the White House legal counsel, during the search for a nominee.

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/3/112632.shtml
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