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Leahy sets Thursday vote for contempt resolutions against Rove, Bolten
The Politico ^ | 12-4-07

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 110th; bolten; contempt; dopeydems; joshbolten; leahy; leaky; rove
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To: Just Lori

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?


21 posted on 12/05/2007 10:03:40 AM PST by HonestConservative (Hillary, the undocumented president.)
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To: STARWISE; devolve

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.


22 posted on 12/05/2007 5:08:49 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP

24 posted on 12/05/2007 5:26:02 PM PST by devolve (---- -Secret_Asian_Man_&_Dr.No-No_Sorass_-)
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To: devolve

Excellent, as always devolve!


25 posted on 12/05/2007 5:28:16 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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Watergate II for Hillary = misdirection time


26 posted on 12/05/2007 5:31:12 PM PST by devolve (---- -Secret_Asian_Man_&_Dr.No-No_Sorass_-)
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To: devolve

Hope so, right now she’s still on the right side of the bars!!


27 posted on 12/05/2007 5:33:14 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: potlatch

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No -

She’s just living in a decorated cell!


28 posted on 12/05/2007 6:04:50 PM PST by devolve (---- -Secret_Asian_Man_&_Dr.No-No_Sorass_-)
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To: devolve

OK, wonder if Martha Stewart showed up to do the decorating, lol.


29 posted on 12/05/2007 6:09:16 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: STARWISE

The first presidential candidate that convinces me that he will bring this traitor and his dem cohorts justice, will get my vote.


30 posted on 12/05/2007 6:12:33 PM PST by Gator113
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To: potlatch

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LOL!

Sounds like a “good thing”!


31 posted on 12/05/2007 6:13:05 PM PST by devolve (---- -Secret_Asian_Man_&_Dr.No-No_Sorass_-)
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To: devolve

Maybe.


32 posted on 12/05/2007 6:18:57 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: STARWISE
Must . . . not . . . post . . . what . . . I'm . . . thinking . . . Must . . . not

Don't want to be banned for life from FR for advocating . . .

33 posted on 12/05/2007 6:25:25 PM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: STARWISE

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.


34 posted on 12/05/2007 7:26:58 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: HonestConservative
Haven’t we heard for the last several years that we invaded the wrong country, we should have invaded Iran Mexico?

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) 

35 posted on 12/06/2007 8:41:02 PM PST by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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