Miers bows out

Harriet Miers announced that she was withdrawing her nomination for the post of Supreme Court Judge late this afternoon. MS/NBC has the story:

Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination
Bush accepts decision 'reluctantly,' promises quick replacement

Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."

The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators� demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president. But politics played a larger role: Bush�s conservative backers had doubts about her ideological purity, and Democrats had little incentive to help the nominee or the embattled GOP president.

Roberts was a good choice but I didn't have any thoughts on Miers -- word was that she was a very good lawyer but there was no real published record of her opinions on the Constitution.