HARRIET E. MIERS
(Harriet Ellan Miers)
She did not think that the U. S. Attorneys, most of whom were Republicans, were loyal enough to President George W. Bush or ideological enough. The Attorney General refused to fire them all, but he did fire eight for political reasons including one to be replaced by a friend of White House Aide Karl Rove. Miers was so unqualified for the Supreme Court that the Senate members of her own party forced her to withdraw.
Harriet Ellan Miers is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party since 1988, she previously served as White House Staff Secretary from 2001 to 2003 and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy from 2003 until 2005. In 2005, Miers was nominated by Bush to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, but—in the face of bipartisan opposition—asked Bush to withdraw her nomination.
