E-mails

By PoliPundit ~ October 9th, 2005 @ 9:43 am

About three dozen conservative lawyers and academics have been informally advising the White House on SCOTUS nominations. Leaked e-mails about the Miers nomination show that they are not pleased:

“We are keeping quiet. And hiding from the media,” wrote Abigail Thernstrom, the Bush-designated vice chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and a prominent critic of affirmative-action policies, in an e-mail copied to other members of the network. “As for undermining trust in the president, I am afraid he has accomplished that all on his own—without any help from us.” (Asked for comment last week, Thernstrom said she was upset that a “private e-mail exchange ends up in the news media.”)