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Let me get this straight
So, Republican Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht obtains a discount on his legal fees from Chip Babcock of Jackson & Walker for his successful defense of Hecht last year in the dispute with the Commission on Judicial Conduct over...
Justice Hecht cleared in Miers flap
Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan L. Hecht, who was the subject of a public admonition by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for his public support of former US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, was cleared by a three-judge Special...
The risk of supporting a former girlfriend
It's reasonably clear that Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht didn't think anything of it when he gave dozens of media interviews last year supporting President Bush's nomination to the US Supreme Court of his former girlfriend and fellow parishoner,...
The one-time Wonderboy of the Texas Democratic Party
If you have any interest in Texas politics, then you will want to check out this NY Sunday Times article on Ben Barnes, pictured on the far right with former House Speaker Gus Mutscher, former Governor Preston Smith, former president...
All about Alito
As it did with Harriett Miers, the University of Michigan Law Library has put together this top notch site that includes biographical information, downloadable opinions, and almost everything else you need to know about Supreme Court Justice nominee, Samuel A....
Longhorn football and Harriet Miers
Here's a good trivia question for your next tailgate party this football season -- What's the connection between Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and Texas Longhorn football? Larry Ribstein has the story about Ms. Miers' involvement in her former firm's...
Miers on business
Larry Ribstein notes in this post that, based upon Harriet Miers' investment track record, it may be a mistake to presume that she will be as adept on business-related issues as a Supreme Court Justice than a proven Judge such...
But Mr. Bork, what do you really think about the Miers nomination?
Robert H. Bork, whose own nomination to the Supreme Court generated the verb "to bork" in American political lexicon, lays the wood to President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court in this Opinion Journal piece, which includes...
All about Miers
Here are a couple of sites that provide comprehensive information regarding President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court: This University of Michigan Law Library site is a good resource for background materials on Ms. Miers (hat tip...
Miers nomination = the Peter Principle?
Although not particularly impressed by the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, I decided to wait to evaluate her performance during the Judiciary Committee hearings before finally deciding whether to support or not support her nomination (as if...
Can't say I expected this
President Bush has nominated White House counsel and Dallas-based attorney Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. Ms. Miers has never been a judge before, the first such non-judge nomination since that...
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