WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some Supreme Court candidates withdrew from consideration but that had nothing to do with President George W. Bush’s eventual selection of White House lawyer Harriet Miers, the White House said on Wednesday.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan confirmed what conservative Christian leader James Dobson told his radio program about an October 1 telephone conversation he had had with top White House aide Karl Rove, in which Rove tried to convince Dobson to support Miers for the Supreme Court.
A senior administration official said it was “just a couple” of candidates who had withdrawn from consideration.