Posted on 12/04/2007 10:19:23 PM PST by STARWISE
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled a committee vote Thursday on contempt resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential political guru Karl Rove for failing to respond to subpoenas.
Under Judiciary Committee rules, the vote could be postponed for a week, but Leahy said he intends to move the criminal contempt resolutions as soon as possible. Last week, he rejected the White House's executive privilege claim in preventing Rove and Bolten from appearing before his panel, calling it "overbroad, unsubstantiated, and not legally valid," setting the stage for Thursday's showdown.
Rove and Bolten were subpoenaed earlier in the year by the Senate panel as part of the investigation into the sacking of nine U.S. attorneys. President Bush, citing executive privilege, refused to make the two senior aides available for questioning by the committee.
Leahy predicted that the contempt resolutions could reach the Senate floor sometime early next year. Bush has also blocked Bolten and former White House counsel Harriett Miers from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. The House panel has voted out criminal contempt resolutions against both of them, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), concerned about divisions within her party over the issue, has yet to set a date for a floor vote.
If either chamber were to approve contempt resolutions, it would likely trigger a lengthy court fight over the extent of executive privilege and how far the president can go in preventing senior aides from appeared before congressional committees.
We are being invaded from the South and all these useless slugs can do is play Watergate.
Off with their heads.
just e mailed Rush; Haven’t we heard for the last several years that we invaded the wrong country, we should have invaded Iran?
Thanks for the ping starwise. I have been decorating and not keeping up with the news!
Did like the ‘advice letter’ that Rove wrote to Obama though, lol, saw it on Drudge the other day.
Excellent, as always devolve!
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Watergate II for Hillary = misdirection time
Hope so, right now she’s still on the right side of the bars!!
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No -
She’s just living in a decorated cell!
OK, wonder if Martha Stewart showed up to do the decorating, lol.
The first presidential candidate that convinces me that he will bring this traitor and his dem cohorts justice, will get my vote.
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LOL!
Sounds like a “good thing”!
Maybe.
Don't want to be banned for life from FR for advocating . . .
I think Rove should testify, then answer whatever questions he is asked with prepared statements on each members failings. How’s that for contempt. It would be great theater because all of the networks would cover it as “here’s our chance to get Rove” when in fact he’ll turn the tables on them.
There, I corrected your post for you...
(I'm not being critical of your post... I'm agreeing. I think the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do and I agree that Iran is a really big problem, but illegal immigration from Mexico is, perhaps, a bigger problem)
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