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Miers is an experienced lawyer who serves as the president's White House counsel but has never been a judge.

In a brief statement Thursday, President Bush said he had "reluctantly" accepted Ms. Miers' decision to withdraw.

Both the president and Ms. Miers cited a demand from several senators to view internal White House documents as a reason for the withdrawal.

Conservatives, including his evangelical base, had begun to get uneasy even before the nomination of the not-right-enough Ms Miers.

President Bush has nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'connor.

The panel will vote on a resolution involving Chief-of-Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House legal counsel Harriet Miers.

Mr Bush almost scuppered the whole project when he nominated a lightweight family retainer, Harriet Miers, to fill Ms O'Connor's seat.

Other Democrats called for Mr Rove and Harriet Miers, the president's former counsel, to testify before Congress.

In 2005, while overseeing Harriet Miers's disastrous nomination to the Supreme Court, he told CNN that justices had become too intellectual.

Harriet Miers has been ordered to tell Congress what she knows about the firing of eight federal prosecutors .

An attorney for Miers has informed the House Judiciary Committee Chairman that Miers will not show up Thursday.

The order for Miers to defy the subpoenas came in a letter from current White House counsel Fred Fielding.

Today a House panel authorizes subpoenas for Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and others.