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House Not Giving Up The Fight On Miers-Bolten Testimony
In case you were worried, the coming of a new Congress won't stop House leaders from continuing their long-running effort to obtain documents and testimony about the US Attorney firings from White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers.
As part of the rules package voted on by members yesterday, the House voted to continue its lawsuit against the White House, which seeks to compel Miers and Bolten to testify and hand over the documents, reports the Las Vegas Sun. Citing executive privilege, the two have been defying subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary committee, creating a protracted legal struggle.
Those subpoenas expired with the start of the new Congress, so as part of the rules package, the House passed rules ensuring the subpoenas could be promptly reissued.
Let the legal maneuvering continue!
Josh
Zachary
The only problem is the Leaders and Chairs who did nothing in the 110th to enforce performance, are the same Leaders and Chairs in the 111th. What a waste of paper!
January 7, 2009 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it were only up to them, I'd agree with you, but they won't have Mukasey running interference. If Holder decides to enforce the subpoenas, it's a whole different ballgame.
January 7, 2009 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a whole new ballgame.
January 7, 2009 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Never going to happen while Nancy Pelosi is Speaker . . .
January 7, 2009 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pelosi going to in-act policy that shows she actively participated in torture,I don't think she is that dumb,by the way the only reason the Burris circus keeps going is to draw your attention away from the pay raise congress is going to give itself:They have to distract you somehow ,hence keep Burris in the news.Snookered again you say ?computer say yeeeeeeeeeesssssss!
January 7, 2009 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
This will be very interesting. Thus far, insofar as an executive privilege argument has been made in the courts, it's been about the powers of the presidency, not of any given president. The new court fight would have to be about whether one president's decisions about what information to release from the executive branch are binding on all future presidents, so that Obama can't simply turn around and withdraw the assertion of privilege that Bush and Cheney made.
On the face of it, that's a completely untenable argument, so I expect it to be made with great gusto by all the usual suspects, starting with Addington and Yoo.
January 8, 2009 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink