Reply #8: Judge Sets Schedule for House Contempt Suit

[L. Coyote]

Judge Sets Schedule for House Contempt Suit
Paul Kiel - March 25, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/judge_sets_schedule_for_house.php


We knew that the House's lawsuit against White House officials would take awhile. And it turns out that it'll be June, at the earliest, before a judge makes his first decision in the House's suit against Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.

That relatively rapid pace (for the courts, at least) is the result of the House pushing for quicker resolution of some of the White House's more expansive claims of executive privilege. The court will decide first whether administration lawyers are right when they say that Miers didn't even need to show up in response to the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena and that both Bolten and Miers didn't even need to indicate what sort of documents the White House were claiming privilege for. ..........