Harriet Miers' reported financial resources would place her near the bottom among current Supreme Court justices, but here comes a report from WaPo of potential financial shenanigans in Texas:
Specter also said the Judiciary Committee will look into a 1999 Dallas land condemnation deal in which Miers's family initially was granted 18 times the assessed value of a half-acre parcel needed for a freeway ramp. Knight-Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday that her family was awarded $106,915 for the property, after the state first had offered $5,900. A settlement reached in 2003 reduced the price to $80,915.
The panel that determined the price for the transaction was appointed by a Texas judge who had received at least $5,000 in campaign donations from the political action committee of Miers's law firm. Panel members have said the payment was fair.
President Bush and loyalists are insisting that we need to hear from Harriet Miers, but it is becoming increasingly clear that she will spend much of the confirmation hearings on the defensive. If Senators are already skeptical, it's hard to imagine how such hearings are going to change their minds.
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