Manny Miranda Returns To "The Dickson/Chappell Report" On 5/27/06

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Manuel Miranda, 45, Chairman of the Third Branch Conference, is a visiting legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Miranda is tenacious, blunt spoken, a committed Conservative and Catholic --both with a capital "C." His tenure as counsel and liaison to the Catholic community for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was cut short in February 2004 after revelations that, as a staffer to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, he accessed documents of committee Democrats from a common computer network. Miranda denied wrongdoing.

He previously headed the Cardinal Newman Society, a "national organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity at Catholic colleges and universities in the United States." That group routinely criticizes Catholic colleges that invite pro-choice speakers to campus. Its most recent project asks supporters to "help identify dissidents and heretics on Catholic theology faculties."

Today, Miranda is, to the distress of Bush administration officials, leading the charge to keep Attorney General and First Friend Alberto Gonzalez off the high court. "In the short-term," he told NCR, "everyone is focused on it not being Gonzalez." In private meetings with pro-life activists who support overturning Roe v. Wade, Gonzalez has signaled that he is not one of them, said Miranda. In public settings, including his 2005 confirmation hearing, Gonzalez has referred to the abortion decision as "settled law." Fighting words.