The 1600 Crew has trotted out some of its most beholden vassals to come to the Sewer that was The Peoples House to pimp for Miers. I wonder if they could be arrested for either pandering or violating the Mann Act; crossing state lines for immoral purposes involving a female.

The White House on Monday brought in six former justices of the Texas Supreme Court to voice support for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and try to quell grumbling about her from conservative Republicans.

The event marked an attempt by White House officials to change the subject to Miers' legal credentials from last week when the administration got bogged down in a debate over her religion.
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"I'd trust her with my wife and with my life," former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John Hill told reporters on the White House driveway after a meeting with President George W. Bush.

Any Texas Supreme Court justice aspiring to the federal bench can expect rough sledding in the U.S. Senate. In much of the country, people are shocked to learn that our Supreme Court justices are elected in million-dollar campaigns that are heavily financed by special interests that have cases before the court. A 1999 Texas Supreme Court poll found that even within Texas, 83 percent of the public, 79 percent of lawyers, and 48 percent of judges say that campaign contributions significantly influence judicial decisions.

Texas Ethics Commission and Court records reveal that 37 percent of the $1.4 million that Justice Owen raised for her campaigns came from lawyers and litigants who had a direct stake in cases before her court. In a 1996 opinion, for example, the Court reversed a lower court ruling and lowered the tax exposure of a major donor, the H.E.B. grocery store chain (H.E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Jefferson County). In another case, the Court upheld a verdict for a plaintiff injured in an H.E.B. store. Yet Justice Owen–who has taken $7,500 from H.E.B.’s owner–joined a dissent that would have overturned that jury verdict (H.E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Bilotto).

On the day of the H.E.B. tax case, the court issued an Owen-authored opinion that haunts her nomination like a nightmare. That decision overturned a lower appeals court ruling to free Enron Corp.–the justices’ No. 1 source of corporate donations–from having to pay $224,989 in school taxes (Enron v. Spring Independent School District). Speaking about Owen’s nomination last month, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT), said, "I have heard from a lot of Republicans who are concerned about her Enron connections." One question that seems certain to arise in an Owen hearing is something like: "Justice Owen, please explain how a judge who is not blind to appearances of impropriety would take $8,600 from Enron’s PAC and executives–including $1,000 from Ken Lay–and then NOT recuse herself from a $224,989 ruling in Enron’s favor?"

Ah, and more stellar Sleeping Capital Murder Lawyer Texan Justice:

In 1999, a new trial was ordered but the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, appealed and the original verdict was upheld.

Mr Cornyn has not yet said whether he will appeal again to the US Supreme Court.

Because there's no Crony like and old Crone-y. Ever.