The indispensable Raw Story points to two remarkable developments in Novak-Plame-Libby-Rove-gate today.First, WaPo's Dan Froomkin notes that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has launched an official web site on the Justice Department's … [Read more...]

So says one of the strategists working with the White House to shepherd the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination through the Senate, as reported by Byron York on the National Review's web site.  York spoke to several of these … [Read more...]

The good folks over at redstate.org have posted the questionnaire that Harriet Miers has filled out in preparation for her Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.Some amusing and interesting nuggets:Earlier this year, I received notice that my … [Read more...]

So new Chief Justice John Roberts says he wants to be an umpire.  Fair enough, I guess.  I just hope he does a much, much better job than the umpires of tonight's playoff game between the Chicago White Sox and the "Los … [Read more...]

Conservative opposition to the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court continues to mount.  The NY Times reports that aides to 6 of the 10 Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee have (anonymously, of course) expressed … [Read more...]

TaxProf Blog reports that while Harriet Miers was managing partner of Locke, Liddell and Sapp in Dallas, the firm provided dubious legal opinions supporting the legality of sleazy tax shelters offered by Ernst & Young.  They did … [Read more...]

For the longest time, almost everyone, including people who know a whole lot about Novak-Plame-gate, were assuming that the only criminal statute that might have been violated by outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent was the … [Read more...]

This story in the NY Times is, for the most part, similar to a number of other reports indicating that Karl Rove has been summoned back to the Novak-Plame-gate grand jury, and that it's possible that Judith Miller, Scooter Libby, and heaven … [Read more...]

Thus spake Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) of Harriet Miers today.  And Lott's direct contradiction of what President Bush said yesterday was, apparently, one of the nicer things that conservatives said about her today.  Tomorrow's WaPo … [Read more...]

Maybe they were never really with him.  But it's clear that conservative elites are abandoning George W. Bush in droves over the Miers nomination.  Two recent examples:Professor Bainbridge, a conservative law professor and … [Read more...]