TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt on Bush and Miers: I am at the 3 day annual meeting of the Lexis-Nexis – Martindale Hubbell Legal Advisory board. This is the board that Harriet Miers was on until 1999 or 2000, when she went to work full-time for Bush, who was then running for President. There are four ex-ABA presidents on the board (three of whom are here), and one former U.S. Attorney General.

Two Sides of the Sunni Vote: Deserted Polls and Long Lines (NYT): A heavy boom shook what was left of the windows in polling station No. 1, a provincial council building in the center of this embattled Sunni Arab city. Bursts of automatic gunfire immediately followed. The polls had been open for exactly three minutes, and insurgents here had already staked their claim on the vote. Iraqis vote in force