Where's Manny?(The Talk of the Town)(Manuel Miranda)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 03-DEC-07

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One of the lesser mysteries in Washington, D.C., in recent years concerned Manuel Miranda. For a time, he achieved a kind of ubiquity in the capital's political and legal culture, but, shortly after the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, he seemed to vanish. What, some wondered, had become of Manny?

Early in the George W. Bush Presidency, Miranda came to public notice as a fiercely partisan aide to the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He moved to the staff of Bill Frist, who was Senate Majority Leader at the time, and orchestrated a series of noisy attempts--including an all-night Senate session--to win confirmation for Bush's judicial nominations. In November, 2003, after...

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