Well, it looks like someone in the White House finally came to their senses, if only for a short while: Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination.
Of course, the White House manages to blame the Senate for forcing this withdrawal, not the fact that they nominated someone who wasn’t qualified. It’s kind of a shame they folded, because
- I was looking forward to the Senate hearings
- It’d give the next Democratic president an excuse to nominate Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court…