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Harriet Miers Gets Wrecked [TEASER]

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Harriet Miers was a lawyer and advisor in the Bush Administration. But what she was NOT was reliably conservative enough to pass Federalist Society muster. Her failed nomination was the first breath of a new era in Court politics: where you toe the line or you gtfo.


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0:00.0

She was nominated by President Bush to serve on the Supreme Court, and it's our loss that never happened.

0:06.3

Harriet Myers.

0:11.6

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects.

0:15.8

On this week's Patreon Only Episode of Five to Four, the hosts are talking about Harriet Myers.

0:22.2

Myers was picked for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush,

0:26.1

but shortly after she was tapped, her nomination stumbled, as critics on the right began to question

0:31.4

her conservative Bonafides. In the end, Myers withdrew her candidacy, and what we got instead

0:38.6

was just as Samuel O'Leah. This is Five to Four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

0:44.8

Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have lost

0:59.0

track of our civil rights, like Delta has lost track of your luggage. I'm Peter, and I'm here with

1:06.0

Rianan. Did that happen? Not to me, but apparently this is an epidemic. Airlines are losing luggage.

1:13.7

I don't know if it's a staffing issue or something, but me and the Fianc are headed on a quick flight

1:19.6

this weekend, and she was like, don't check your bags. They're losing them. I looked it up, and it's true.

1:26.4

Like I do anytime, my Fianc tells me something. I look it up on the internet to confirm whether it's true.

1:32.2

This one was true. I think this is the second metaphor to be dedicated to Delta. That might be right.

1:39.5

Yeah. They impact my life quite a bit more than I would like. Obviously, Michael is not with us

1:46.7

today. He's sick. Yesterday, we were going to record and he said, no, I feel too sick. Let me get

1:52.5

some rest, and then maybe we can record tomorrow. And then today, he was like, no, I'm still sick.

1:57.2

So now we're just doing it without a goal. But he sent us some of his thoughts. Yes.

2:02.3

So we're going to give you some of his ideas and pass them off as our own. That's right.

2:07.7

Absolutely right. Today's episode much requested. Obviously, you're here because you're a premium

2:14.4

subscriber, and you get the premium content. That's right. We are talking about the saga of Harriet

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