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    Commentary: Whitaker is another Miers: Like Bush's court pick, Trump's attorney general isn't qualified.

    by Andrew Coan, Los Angeles Times Nov 15, 2018 3 minutes

    Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general, is President Trump's Harriet Miers. Remember her?

    Miers was White House counsel under President George W. Bush. When Bush nominated her to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court in 2006, he faced a storm of criticism from prominent legal conservatives deriding her intellectual mediocrity and lack of experience. Some of this criticism was elitist and mean-spirited, but its essential truth was undeniable.

    The parallels to Trump and Whitaker are strong, and the outcome should be the same. Trump should withdraw his interim appointment of

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