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And no, we’re not talking about her failed Supreme Court bid. A Wonkette operative recently sent us this celebrity sighting of the White House Counsel, which we originally planned to use in our next collection of Wonk’d items: MORE »

Wonkette operatives have turned up an interesting fillip in the Harriet Miers-Nathan Hecht-Priscilla Owen bizarre love triangle: “The Harriet effect.” Speaking of the mid-1990s , when Owen first joined Hecht on the Texas Supreme Court, our operative reports:

If Owen and Hecht were at an event and Miers would show up, there were frequently scenes with Owen snarking at Hecht and stomping out, in full view of many, with Hecht left to calm [Owen] down.  Some Texas judicial observers said you can actually chart the “Harriet fights” by the few times Owen and Hecht didn’t vote the same way.

Ah! Wrath of woman scorned and whatnot. Wonkette investigates –after the jump!

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Curiouser and curiouser: Harriet Miers’s one-time squeeze, Nathan Hecht, also used to date would-be SCOTUS nom and left-wing boogeywoman Priscilla Owen. Say this about Hecht, he has a type. From Texas we hear conflicting reports about the sizzliness of the hookups. One correspondent contends that Hecht and Miers didn’t date so much as take each other to dinner: “I clerked for the Court during one of the terms that he was on it. Seeing them together, it was hard to imagine (both difficult and nauseating) them being intimate because both seemed so stiff.  (And not stiff in the fun way.)” Another operative insists that it got (ahem) ugly, and that Owens and Miers had a “catfight” over their hunk of manmeat, though it’s unclear who won. Did either of them fight like a girl? MORE »