Harriet E. Miers, the White House counsel, this morning withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court, and the President accepted, "reluctantly." The chief reasons asserted had to do with the resistance of the
White House to Senate demands for confidential communications between Ms. Miers and the President. I would like to say that Miers's nomination foundered on her bad writing, the number of her typos, and the lateness of her questionnaire, topics to which I have already alluded on this blog, for the benefit of aspiring members of the bar. It appears, however, that criticism of the Miers nomination from both the left and the right was in fact the cause. Read about it in The New York Times.
