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Rebecca Sinderbrand
Posted inMagazine

Miranda’s Plight

by Rebecca Sinderbrand

Manuel Miranda is a charming, avuncular GOP operative in his mid-forties who is known in Republican circles as Manny. In 2004, he enjoyed fifteen minutes of more widespread fame. Miranda, who at the time was the judicial nominations counsel to then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Senate Judiciary Committee, had downloaded memos detailing […]