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Originally Posted by ute4ever
My Civ Pro professor felt Meyers' nomination was just a strategy, that Bush expected the public to cry cronyism from the start, and she would never get in. It was a ploy so when Bush later nominated Alito, who was the person he wanted all along, people would be relieved that it wasn't another Meyers and Alito would get in without facing the same backlash.
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I don't buy it at all. Read Jan Crawford Greenburg's account of the story. It wouldn't add up to say that Miers was a decoy. Besides, I don't think Bush would let Miers be crucified like that to grease the wheels for Alito (when he could have probably gotten Alito without the Miers nomination anyways).