Chief Justice Roberts holds moot court on Hewitt v. The Corner case

Washington DC (October 10, 2005) – Based on an urgent and personal request from President Bush yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts has agreed to hold an emergency mood court on the “Hewitt v. The Corner” case. This is about the raging, take-no-prisoner battle inside the conservative blogosphere on Harriet Miers, President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, which seems to significantly increase the Democrats chance for a mid-term victory in 2006. With Chief Justice Roberts’ help, President Bush hopes to avert the potential disaster for the Republican party in the 2006 and 2008 elections.On one side, Mr. Hugh Hewitt, one of the leading conservative lawyer-professor-journalist-blogger, defends the Miers nomination, mainly based on “Ms. Miers’s qualification” and his trust in “President Bush’s judicial nomination track record.” On the other side, The Corner challenges exactly the same “qualification” and Ms. Miers’ crony closeness to President Bush. Mr. Hewitt’s case is supported by the Locke Liddell & Sapp law firm and the Texas Lottery Commission. Joining The Corner case are Messrs. Bill Kristol, the elitist chief neocon at The Weekly Standard, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. of the New York Times and Dr. Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. According CBS News this morning, Mr. Markos Moulitas of DailyKos, the well-known left-wing constitutional scholar, has also filed an amicus curiae, “friend of the court” brief, on behalf of The Corner. This event will take place at the George Washington University Law School, Lerner Hall, on Thursday October 13, 2005 and is open to the public.