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By Terence Hunt, AP White House Correspondent | October 27, 2005
WASHINGTON --Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."
Breaking News Alerts The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president.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 GOP president.
"Let's move on," said Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi. "In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?"
The withdrawal stunned Washington on a day when the capital was awaiting potential bad news for the administration on another front -- the possible indictments of senior White House aides in the CIA leak case.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/w.../27/miers_withdraws_supreme_court_nomination/
WASHINGTON --Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."
Breaking News Alerts The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president.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 GOP president.
"Let's move on," said Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi. "In a month, who will remember the name Harriet Miers?"
The withdrawal stunned Washington on a day when the capital was awaiting potential bad news for the administration on another front -- the possible indictments of senior White House aides in the CIA leak case.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/w.../27/miers_withdraws_supreme_court_nomination/