Miers dated "radical right" supreme court judge... but..... [View All]

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This article metions that Miers dated Nathan Hecht:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1102944936042

(snip) "She's not a back-slapper. She's very businesslike," says Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht, who has dated Miers over the years and has known her since he first became a lawyer at Locke Purnell in 1975.

"She's also very kind. She always remembers everybody's birthday, and has a present for them. She'll be finding a present for somebody in the middle of the night," he says. "'Can't it wait until next week?' 'No,' she'd say, 'It has to be done now.'" (end snip)


Hecht is scary: http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=678

(snip) "Now comes Bush nominee Priscilla Owen, who–with fellow Justice Nathan Hecht–currently occupies the radical right wing of the conservative Texas Supreme Court.... While all nine Texas Supreme Court justices remain pro-business conservatives, Justices Owen and Hecht (who inspired the opposition PAC "Hecht No!") were reduced to an isolated bloc of extremist dissent in 1998, following the appointment of several relatively moderate justices by none other than then-Governor George W. Bush. Bush’s appointments–combined with a "60 Minutes" exposé of the court’s campaign finance conflicts–brought a noticeable dose of restraint to the rest of the court. But Justices Owen and Hecht continued to masquerade as "strict constructionists".... (end snip)

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Interesting littl side note there about Bush's "relatively moderate" Texas Supreme Court appointments.