House Pushes for Quick Handling of MIERS, BOLTON Contempt Suit

[L. Coyote]

House Pushes for Quick Handling of Contempt Suit
By Paul Kiel - March 20, 2008 - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/house_pushes_for_quick_handlin.php


A quick update on the House's lawsuit (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/house_panel_files_suit_against.php) against Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten. From The Politico (http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0308/House_Judiciary_seeks_speedy_ruling_in_civil_contempt_case_against_Bolten_Miers.html):

The House General Counsel's Office, which is representing the Judiciary Committee in a civil contempt lawsuit against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, has asked a federal judge to set up an expedited schedule to resolve portions of the case, a schedule that would require a ruling by this summer, according to court documents filed today.

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What the House wants is to just settle the White House's more expansive claims of privilege -- namely, 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.

A private conference is scheduled for tomorrow. The judge's decision will likely indicate whether the House has any hope of hearing any actual testimony from Miers or seeing any documents from Bolten during the Bush administration.

[L. Coyote]

1. Remember DU BP (before primaries) when threads like this were noticed?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Kick, in hopes that something actually gets done.

[annabanana]

3. Nothing will be done until Inherent Contempt is charged.

Appeals to the Justice Department fall on deaf ears, and an outcome to the benefit of the American People in this Supreme Court is doubtful.

[L. Coyote]

6. Impeach now instead of waiting to hear them plead the FIFTH!

We all know this leads to forcing them to plead the fifth, and no further.

WE either have the evidence to IMPEACH or we do not. I'll go with we do,
per HR 333 being sufficient to begin a process that should encompass
circumventing Executive Privilege on all possible fronts. Write the
resolution as broadly as possible and move forward as quickly as possible.

[Orsino]

4. In other words, nothing is STILL happening, and it's happening as slowly as possible.

i n h e r e n t c o n t e m p t , y o u f u c k e r s

[sce56]

5. Come on Democratic Congress drink a little more Milk grow some more spine INHERENT CONTEMPT is the

only way to go!

[spanone]

7. wow, this summer....geez, that's really, really fast

:sarcasm:

i predict absolutely NOTHING will come from this

[L. Coyote]

8. Judge Sets Schedule for House Contempt Suit

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. ..........