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House panel: Miers wrong to miss hearing
The House Judiciary subcommittee that Sanchez chairs voted 7-5 to sustain her ruling. The next step would be for the full Judiciary Committee to issue a finding that Miers, Bush‘s longtime friend and former Supreme Court nominee, was in contempt. Ultimately, the full House would have to vote on any contempt citation. The White House showed no signs of backing down, pointing out that Bush was willing to make Miers and other administration officials available for interviews, but only behind closed doors and without a transcript. Democrats have rejected the offer. The question grew more pressing when Bush ordered Miers to defy the committee‘s subpoena, unlike a lower-ranking former White House aide, Sara Taylor, who took a different approach Wednesday. Saying nothing is the strategy that Miers, on Bush‘s orders, adopted Thursday.
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago
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posted by
GrpThink
on Jul 12, 2007 at 01:31 PM
If this was the 1970s or 1980s, I'd say that Miers is in a world of hurt. But with the Supreme Court stacked with rightwing idologists, we all know how they will rule on Bush's claims of executive privilege. posted by
montfred
on Jul 12, 2007 at 01:42 PM
The Supreme Court said as early as 1821 that without the power to hold people in contempt of Congress, the legislative branch would be "exposed to every indignity and interruption that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may mediate against it."source from MSNBC Primer on Contempt Congress posted by MSNBC posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 12, 2007 at 02:21 PM
It was "wrong" of her to miss the hearing in the sense that it's "wrong" to rob convenience stores, or "wrong" to fail to pay your income tax. That is, a violation of law. . Even executive privilege doesn't exempt you from showing up to *CLAIM* executive privilege. As a lawyer, she must be a real mamzer if they don't even trust her to say "no comment" satisfactorily. posted by
montfred
on Jul 12, 2007 at 03:22 PM
House Passes Iraq Pullout TimetableWar Funding Bill Approved 218-212; Bush Vows Veto
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer A sharply divided House voted yesterday to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq by next summer, attaching a timetable for withdrawal to the billions of dollars in war funding President Bush has demanded to prosecute an increasingly unpopular war. Within minutes of passage, Bush denounced the bill as "an act of political theater" and an abdication of responsibility, sternly repeating his pledge to veto it. .....one of the toughest antiwar measures ever to pass a house of Congress during combat operations. Just two Republicans, Reps. Wayne T. Gilchrest (Md.) and Walter B. Jones (N.C.), voted in favor...Washington Post (more) let's take a poll vote yes, if you think the Californian will cover this story in editorial section. posted by
randomfactor
on Jul 12, 2007 at 03:26 PM
And yet the Senate voted 97-0 yesterday to let Bush do whatever the hell he feels like doing, up to and including dropping the Bomb on Iran.
posted by
mattloch
on Jul 12, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Which bill was that Random? Or do you just believe that every vote that isn't impeachment as allowing him to continue doing whatever the hell he wants to? Because that's the way that I'm starting to look at things......
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