“President Bush has chosen White House Counsel Harriet Miers as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,” reports this morning’s Washington Post.

“Miers, who was Bush’s personal attorney in Texas, was the first woman elected president of the Texas Bar Association and was a parner at the Texas law firm of Locke Liddell & Sapp before coming to Washington.

“If confirmed, she would be a rare appointee with no experience as a judge at any level.

“In 1989, she was elected to a two-year term as an at-large candidate on the Dallas City Council. She chose not to run for re-election when her term expired.”