WHEN SHE RAN for the Dallas City Council in the spring of 1989, Harriet Miers sought the endorsement of Texans United for Life, according to its president, Kyleen Wright. Miers’s interview with TUL’s Political Action Committee was scheduled for April 11, 1989, and in preparation for the interview she completed a single-page “candidate questionnaire,” one of the many documents the White House sent Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Miers answered “yes” to every question, scoring 100 percent in the eyes of TUL.

The questionnaire was unsigned, and TUL was still searching its archives for the signed copy when I interviewed Wright late Tuesday afternoon. But she has no doubt that there was a signed copy. It was TUL’s practice to ask candidates scheduled for interviews to bring with them several copies of the completed survey. The additional copies often were unsigned, and “it was not unusual,” says Wright, for a candidate to retain an unsigned copy. “She would have had our enthusiastic endorsement,” says Wright, who also was searching for that record.