United States President George Bush announced on Thursday that his choice to fill a US Supreme Court vacancy, Harriet Miers, had withdrawn her nomination.
”Today, I have reluctantly accepted Harriet Miers’s decision to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States,” he said in a statement. ”My responsibility to fill this vacancy remains. I will do so in a timely manner.”
The surprise withdrawal of Miers’s nomination comes just over three weeks after she was recommended for the high-profile legal post by Bush on October 3.
Bush said his White House counsel will continue to serve him in that post following her withdrawal.
Miers’s nomination had run into trouble on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers suggested she lacked the votes necessary for confirmation to the United States’ highest court. – AFP
