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Bush Picks W. House Counsel Harriet Miers For Supreme Court; Conservatives "Dismayed'; Seeking a true believer, they aren't enthusiastic about Bush's old friend.(A)
Byline: BRIAN MITCHELL
President Bush disappointed conservative activists and baffled Democrats by nominating White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
"She has devoted her life to the rule of law and the cause of justice," Bush said of Miers on Monday morning, just as Chief Justice John Roberts was beginning his first day on the high court.
"She will strictly interpret our Constitution and laws. She will not legislate from the bench," Bush said.
A fellow Texan with no experience as a judge or before the Supreme Court, Miers, 60 and never married, is barely known outside of Dallas, where she grew up and earned her bachelor's and law degrees from Southern Methodist University.
She clerked for a federal judge and was the first woman hired by her law firm and later the firm's first female president. She was also the first female president of the Dallas and Texas bar associations.
Miers sat on the Dallas city council and chaired the commission overseeing the Texas lottery. She was Bush's personal lawyer through his 2000 election and followed him to the White House.
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