Toobin Book Contradicts Draper on Miers Nomination

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There has been much ado indeed about Dead Certain, the inside-the-Bush- White-House tome by GQ's Robert Draper that hits bookshelves today (Infighting in Bush's inner circle! Bush blaming Bremer for disbanding the Iraqi army -- and Bremer striking back! You won't see Bush hanging out at the U.N. after he's out of office -- he wants to do nothing after his Presidency! (Insert joke about obscene vacation day count here.) All very juicy, exciting stuff.

But there's another big book slated for September: The Nine, CNN/New Yorker scribe Jeffrey Toobin's hotly anticipated inside-the-Supreme-Court tome, out on Sept. 18th. Chapter 22, "I Know Her Heart," is about the abortive nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court (unintentional Roe pun, but hey, ). Toobin traces the genesis of the nomination from the resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor through to Miers' withdrawal from the nomination, ostensibly to preserve executive privilege.

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