Thursday, October 20, 2005

Miers:Not Accredited to Practice Law in DC

TheNewRepublic: You can't make this stuff up. The counsel to the pres of the United States... Harriet Miers... wasn't licensed to practice law in DC: "Earlier this yr, I received notice that my dues for the District of Columbia Bar were delinquent and as a result my ability to practice law in D.C. had been suspended. I immediately sent the dues in to remedy the delinquency. The nonpayment was not intentioned, and I corrected the situation upon receiving the letter." I guess we can knock "detail-oriented" off her ever-shrinking list of qualifications, huh? And Maureen Dowd (via CypheringBlog) rightly points out that if Miers could be "... such a scatterbrain about paperwork that a little tiny thing like being able to legally practice law slipped her mind while she was serving as the lawyer for the leader of the free world..." what kind of SCOTUS Justice could she possibily make? And this, from the NY Times: The committee chairman, Sen Arlen Specter (R-PA) said Miers should redo a questionnaire prepared by a bipartisan Senate panel because her initial responses had been insufficient on "many, many of the items." The ranking Dem, Sen Patrick Leahy of VT, agreed that Miers's effort on the questionnaire had been "inadequate," adding that some of his Senate colleagues had found her responses "ranged from incomplete to insulting." Way to go Bush... yet another f-up crony.
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