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38-414: Memogate may refer to: Mannygate , a 2004 controversy concerning confidential memos of Democratic staffers on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee obtained by Manual Miranda. Killian documents controversy , a 2004 controversy involving apparently forged documents critical of George W. Bush's military service, reported on by 60 Minutes Memogate (Pakistan) ,

76-564: A professional fraternity , the fraternity was designated as an honor society in 2012. In the same year the fraternity began chartering Halls as undergraduate pre-law chapters. Phi Delta Phi has 131 active chapters known as Inns. Each Inn is named for a noted jurist or member of the bar . Some of the most notable chapters in the U.S. include the founder, Kent Inn at Michigan , Gibson-Alexander Inn at Penn , Story Inn at Columbia , Choate Inn art Harvard , Waite Inn at Yale , Conkling Inn at Cornell , Miller Inn at Stanford , Douglas Inn at

114-525: A 2008 USAID Report, significantly increased access to justice for the Iraqi people. In 2007, he brought Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan’s legal leaders to Washington, arranging visits for them with White House counsel, with Chief Justice John Roberts , and with key House and Senate leaders.  In 2008, Miranda made news again when a memorandum to U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker was leaked. Phi Delta Phi Phi Delta Phi ( ΦΔΦ ), commonly known as Phid or PDP,

152-532: A 2011 controversy about an alleged Pakistani memo seeking the help of the US Government Nunes memo , a 2018 controversy regarding a memo about the FBI's obtaining of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Memogate . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

190-846: A Junior Operations Officer for the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, which is now the International Organization for Migration , at its headquarters in Geneva , Switzerland, where he was assigned to Madrid, Thailand, and the Philippines. As the Circumnavigators Foundation Fellow, in the summer of 1981 he completed a round-the-world tour, traveling alone to 17 countries to study international responses to refugee crises.     During Miranda's time at Georgetown University, he helped found

228-596: A continuous 40-hour debate imaging the public’s idea of a filibuster, and an unprecedented national media campaign, marshaling nationwide grassroots and grasstop support.   When he retired from the Senate in late 2006, Majority Leader Bill Frist described judicial nominations as his signature issue. No Senate Majority Leader has spent more Senate floor time debating judicial nominees, and there has never been more news and editorial coverage on that issue than in 2003.  In less than one year, Republicans turned public opinion on

266-429: A decades-old history of advocacy as a Georgetown University alumnus. After leaving Capitol Hill, Miranda organized the "National Coalition to End Judicial Filibusters" to support the " nuclear option " or "constitutional option" that he had helped pioneer on Senator Bill Frist 's leadership team. The idea was a procedural motion under Senate precedent designed to have Vice President Dick Cheney , acting as President of

304-701: A diplomat with the United States Embassy in Iraq as the first Director of the Office for Legislative Statecraft. He oversaw organizational change experts, lawyers  and programs designed to stand up the Iraqi Council of Ministers Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s Legal Office.   Miranda also worked with the Iraq and Kurdistan Bars and brokered a signed reconciliation between them that according to

342-578: A grasstops coalition of 200 national conservative leaders. As Chairman of the Third Branch Conference, Miranda became a leading conservative movement voice on judicial nominations, coming to lead conservatives in opposing George W. Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. That opposition became a turning point for conservatives during the Bush presidency. For his role, Miranda received

380-612: A regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal , where he published 35 columns under the banner "The Next Justices".  Memogate entered the news again during the hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh , in 2018. Kavanaugh was accused of perjury for claiming he was not aware of the source of the Memogate documents, when emails between him and Miranda included as an attachment at least one document that Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy described as “stolen.” Miranda issued

418-492: A skilled strategic defender of the Bush nominees garnering significant press and public attention, especially in the nominations of Miguel Estrada and William H. Pryor Jr. Miranda stressed Estrada’s Honduran immigrant roots and argued the attack on Pryor showed anti-Catholic bigotry. The strategy infuriated opponents. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called the Republican messaging “tawdry and diabolical.” A few days later

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456-538: A statement noting again that nothing had been “stolen” and that Kavanaugh was never made aware of Democrats’ negligent publication of their own strategy memos on an open server. As President of the Cardinal Newman Society , Miranda had many years’ experience as a public advocate before working in the Senate.  Over the years, he has made over 200 radio and television appearances in English and Spanish. He has

494-536: A total membership of over 200,000 people, members of Phi Delta Phi include five U.S. presidents , two U.S. vice presidents , 14 Supreme Court justices , and numerous members of Congress , Cabinet members, and ambassadors . Phi Delta Phi was founded on December 13, 1869 at the University of Michigan Law School by John M. Howard, a first year law student. Howard was a graduate of Monmouth College and member of Phi Gamma Delta , referred to as Fiji. His initial intent

532-656: Is an international legal honor society and the oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States. Founded in 1869 at the University of Michigan as a professional fraternity , it was designated as an honor society in 2012. It is considered among the world's most prestigious professional organizations. Phi Delta Phi is organized by two branches: legal honor societies and pre-law societies. The legal honor societies, called Inns, are located at law schools. The pre-law societies, called Halls, are for undergraduate membership at U.S. colleges and universities. With

570-636: The Congressional Hispanic Conference . On November 14, 2003, on the last morning of the Senate’s 40-hour “talkathon” on judicial filibusters, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “He is Latino” that outlined a series of Senate staff memos illustrating the hand-in-glove relationship between Senate Democrats and left-wing interest groups in coordinating the obstruction of Bush judicial nominees.   Thus commenced

608-522: The Sergeant at Arms following a thorough investigation concluded that "a clerk in the [Republican Majority's] Nominations Unit had admitted to them that day that he had accessed Democratic files over the Committee's computer system...The clerk who initially discovered how to access the files told investigators that he was not sure what to look for in the files, so Mr. Miranda would guide him as to what information

646-561: The Stewards Society . Miranda attended law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law , where he was the first Charles Rummel Scholar. He served as chief research editor of the International & Comparative Law Review , as president of Phi Delta Phi , and he worked as research associate to the dean and chancellor. Miranda has been admitted without interruption to

684-959: The University of Chicago , Minor Inn at Virginia , Malone Inn at Vanderbilt , Vance Inn at North Carolina , Booth Inn at Northwestern , Hughes Inn at Duke , Scott Inn at Georgetown , Jones Inn at the University of California, Berkeley , Ruffin Inn at Wake Forest , and Lamar Inn at Emory . Phi Delta Phi Inns are also located in Canada , Mexico , Germany and Poland . Notable international Inns include Santos Theriot Inn at University of Monterrey , Cabrera Inn at Universidad Iberoamericana , Palacios Macedo Inn at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México , Martland Inn at University of Ottawa , Weizsäcker Inn at University of Tübingen , and Hoffman-Becking Inn at Goethe University Frankfurt . The honor society has numerous undergraduate chapters, called Halls. Some of

722-573: The American Conservative Union’s Ronald Reagan Award. In announcing the award, ACU President David Keene told the Conservative Political Action Conference banquet audience: "[Sam Alito’s] nomination would not have been made but for Manny Miranda and because of the coalition that he put together; that nomination would still be being debated, were it not for Manny Miranda.”  Miranda brought

760-814: The Bar of the State of New York for over 30 years, as well as to the Maryland Bar. Before public service, he had a long legal career at some of the world's most prominent international law firms, including with White & Case, Reid & Priest, and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts , where he began his career in the canyons of Wall Street. His clients included Mobil Oil Corporation, Ramada Renaissance, International Finance Corporation, InterAmerican Development Bank, Bank of America, Irving Trust, Bank of New York, Credit Lyonnais, National Grid (UK), Caterpillar, PEMEX, BHP Power, and King Ranch. Miranda’s earliest expertise, however, grew in

798-557: The Democrat memos.  His resignation letter was published in full by National Review .   His resignation also suggested a Republicans leadership surrender that launched Miranda as a conservative hero. Miranda took an unwavering position that he was fully entitled by the Code of Ethics for Government Service to read the unprotected documents accessible on his desktop, especially if they might evidence corruption.  A report prepared by

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836-1032: The Inns remained active on a restricted basis. The first international unit of the fraternity was the Weldon Inn, chartered in 1925 at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia . The first unit in Mexico , the Velasco Inn, was chartered in 1973 at the Escuela Libre de Derecho , in Mexico City . The first unit in Germany , the Roman Herzog Inn, was chartered in 2006 at the Bucerius Law School , in Hamburg . After 140 years of operation as

874-518: The Memogate scandal during which Democrats would accuse Republicans (especially Miranda) of “stealing” their "confidential" strategy memos, Republicans would demand an investigation of Democrats’ possibly unlawful collusion with special interests, and the Press took sides in a two year debate over which of those two stories was the more important. In February 2004, Miranda resigned his Senate position in an unusually public manner calling for an investigation of

912-677: The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Denver, the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput , wrote a widely-published condemnation of Senate Democrats for engaging in  “a new kind of religious discrimination” against Catholics. By January 2003, Miranda had become Judicial Affairs Counsel to the new Senate Majority Leader, Dr. Bill Frist (R-TN). As a top leadership staffer, he now rallied 51 Republican senators and their staffs on judicial nominations and orchestrated four historic Senate floor events with Vice President Dick Cheney presiding, including

950-519: The Senate, rule unconstitutional the Senate's six decade old application to judicial nominations of the filibuster rule, now being used in an unprecedented manner to stall Bush administration judicial nominees, including potentially against nominees to the Supreme Court . After the Gang of 14 compromise that put off the high stakes Senate confrontation, the Coalition renamed itself the "Third Branch Conference",

988-657: The United States, settling in New York City . He was naturalized as an American citizen along with his father and sister in 1976. He graduated with honors from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Astoria, Queens . He attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Ridgewood, Queens , obtaining that school’s highest graduation award, the Pvt. Louis J. Willet Scholarship. He attended Georgetown University 's Walsh School of Foreign Service where he

1026-411: The area of corporate governance. He has organized and structured a number of non-profit organizations, including guiding some in internecine struggles for control. The most notable representation in this area included a four- year litigation over the control of Georgetown University’s alumni association and alumni annual fund. Fought against Washington’s Williams & Connolly , at the end Miranda won and

1064-456: The conservative audience to a sustained standing ovation when he told them: “What has driven me in the past three years, … has been that I wasn’t born in this country. And I have come to know that our Constitution and our court system is …a very important reason why this country is great. And so, anything that I have been doing is simply to say thank you to this country that took in my mother and father and their two young children."   At

1102-512: The control of parish corporate boards and a national, year-long audit of the Church’s exposure. He has assisted clients in immigration, corporate governance and crisis management, and as canon law counsel to Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer of The Exorcist , William Peter Blatty , winning for him a favorable result at the Vatican in a case against Georgetown University. In 2001, Miranda joined

1140-492: The debacle experienced in 1987 with the nomination of Robert Bork , Miranda is credited with devising the “Miranda Plan,” ensuring rapid endorsement on the record of a Republican president’s Supreme Court nominees  -- a plan that has been deployed since the nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005. As the highest ranking Hispanic in the Senate Republican staff, Miranda represented Senate leadership to establish

1178-423: The end of 2006, Miranda made front page news when he formed another wide coalition, Families First on Immigration. Its purpose was to promote a compassionate compromise to immigration legal reform based on a seven-point program called " Good Stewards, Good Neighbor ." The proposal was endorsed and summarized by Evangelical leader Tony Perkins in his 2008 book on faith and policy. In 2007 and 2008, Miranda served as

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1216-441: The issue from 2 to 1 against them, to 2 to 1 for their position that every nominee deserved a vote. As a result, judicial nominations were a looming issue in the elections of 2002 and 2004 and have been in presidential and senate elections ever since. In 2004, that issue lost Democrats not only the majority but also the Senate seat of their Majority Leader, tom Daschle (D-SD). Miranda is credited for this effort and much more. To avoid

1254-545: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Memogate&oldid=1135080648 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mannygate Miranda was born in Havana , Cuba in 1959. In 1962, he immigrated with his parents to Asturias , Spain, and immigrated again in 1966 to

1292-618: The staff of the United States Senate , where he was assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary as Nominations Counsel in the staff of Senator Orrin Hatch . Senate Democrats had just commenced a new strategy led by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to block the appellate court nominees of President George W. Bush using process requests to disguise ideological litmus tests.  Miranda quickly became

1330-514: Was helpful." Miranda never backed down, while Democrats demanded his demise he published a law review article on the law and ethics of Memogate and then brought a lawsuit to invite a federal judge to give him a declaratory judgment on Democrats’ claims against him, laying out in both cases allegations of Democrat Senators' wrongdoing. Soon after leaving the Senate, Miranda became a visiting legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation , working for former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese , and serving as

1368-564: Was recognized by the court as the legal representative of all Georgetown alumni. The groundbreaking case, decided on summary judgement, established the law of the District of Columbia on a number of corporate governance issues. Georgetown settled at the end, wrapping up that and all related actions. At Russin & Vecchi, Miranda represented, among others, the Russian Orthodox Church of America, including advice in internecine battles over

1406-669: Was the 1981 Circumnavigators Foundation Fellow, earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service. At Georgetown he served as the student representative on the Walsh School’s Executive Committee and as president of Alpha Phi Omega , the National Service Fraternity. In 2016, he was awarded Alpha Phi Omega 's Alumni Lifetime Distinguished Service Award. In 1980, while at Georgetown, Miranda took a leave of absence to work on international refugee assistance as

1444-501: Was to found a chapter of Fiji at Michigan, but he did not follow through with the plan because of the large number of chapters already in place on the campus. Howard instead turned his efforts toward founding a fraternity devoted purely to students of the legal profession. Phi Delta Phi Inns have occasionally leased or owned residential buildings or secured meeting spaces, often adjacent to law libraries. During World War II , when law school admissions enrollments virtually ceased, all of

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