{"id":1092,"date":"2005-10-03T22:04:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2005-10-03T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T03:08:07","slug":"bush-announces-supreme-court-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Bush Announces Supreme Court Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the lucky nominee is &#8230; White House counsel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/03\/scotus.miers\/index.html\">Harriet Miers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have little to say at this time about the selection as I know little to nothing about Ms. Miers.  Actually, prior to today, I knew absolutely nothing about her.<\/p>\n<p>Just judging by the scattershot headlines, it seems the media is perplexed about how to approach the story.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/12809508.htm\"><strong>Miers said to be on &#8216;extreme end&#8217; of pro-life movement<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-right4oct04,0,955821.story?coll=la-home-headlines\"><strong>Many Conservatives Aren&#8217;t Happy About Miers&#8217; Selection<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/washington\/stories\/100405dnnatnustealth.d4524d1.html\"><strong>Nominee known for not being known for her views<\/strong><\/a> (stupid registration required)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2005-10-03-voa49.cfm\"><strong>Miers Supreme Court Nomination Gets Positive Yet Cautious Reviews<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/CSM\/story?id=1181011\"><strong>Bush&#8217;s unconventional choice<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/12808517.htm\"><strong>Democrats: &#8216;It could have been a lot worse&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/sns-ap-bush-scotus,1,2610385.story?coll=chi-news-hed&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\"><strong>Court Nominee Has No Judicial Experience<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reaction around the blogosphere also appears to be a mix of condemnation, acclaim and confusion, along with a healthy dosage of withholding of judgement.  Collections of blogger responses can be found at the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/\"><strong>Michelle Malkin<\/strong><\/a>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/003660.htm\">Utterly Underwhelmed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outsidethebeltway.com\/\"><strong>Outside the Beltway<\/strong><\/a>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/12206\">Harriet Miers Nominee for Supreme Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliblogger.com\/\"><strong>PoliBlog<\/strong><\/a>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliblogger.com\/?p=8305\">Blogospheric Reactions<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliblogger.com\/?p=8306\">More Reactions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the lucky nominee is &#8230; White House counsel Harriet Miers. I have little to say at this time about the selection as I know little to nothing about Ms. Miers. Actually, prior to today, I knew absolutely nothing about her. Just judging by the scattershot headlines, it seems the media is perplexed about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}