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"I worked with Harriet Miers. She's a lovely person: intelligent, honest, capable, loyal, discreet, dedicated ... I could pile on the praise all morning. But nobody would describe her as one of the outstanding lawyers in the United States.

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Why do we need to go any further than this? Who gives a crap what her politics are, if this is true? This is the United States freaking Supreme Court, for Christ's sake.