Harriet Miers Resigns As White House Counsel

James Joyner · Thursday, January 4, 2007 · 3 Comments

Harriet Miers has submitted her resignation as White House counsel, effective the 31st. This is noteworthy only because she was inexplicably nominated for the Supreme Court a while back, but noteworthy nonetheless.

UPDATE: Mary Katharine Ham notes that the inevitably silliness of speculation about what this signals has commenced. She observes, “I have a friend who went to work over there two years ago, and I haven’t seen her since. “

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Doug says:

Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 17:22

I think she’s either coming back to Dallas to run for Mayor or to head up the construction of the Bush library at SMU

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Triumph says:

Friday, January 5, 2007 at 00:56

Well, lets hope she is going to be a judge somewhere. In Bush’s estimation she is the most qualified jurist in the country for the highest court in the land.

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Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 05:06

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