(D.C. Circuit) Court Grants Obama (Another) Extension in (ex-Bush aides) Subpoena Case

[sabra]

Source: Legal Times

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today gave the Obama administration another week to decide its course in a case involving one of President George W. Bush’s most expansive claims of executive privilege.

The briefing schedule has changed three times in the last two weeks, after two motions by the Justice Department for more time to allow for an out-of-court settlement in the House of Representatives' lawsuit against former White House counsel Harriet Miers and chief of staff Joshua Bolten. The Justice Department now has until March 4 to file its opening brief in the case.

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The D.C. Circuit panel -- composed of Chief Judge David Sentelle, Judge Douglas Ginsburg, and Judge A. Raymond Randolph -- gave no explanation for its change of heart in granting the full extension.

The House has also subpoenaed Bush’s former chief adviser, Karl Rove, for testimony in connection with the U.S. attorney firings and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Any settlement would involve him as well. His lawyers have said he is not opposed to testifying, but days before leaving office Bush's White House counsel, Fred Fielding, sent letters to Rove, Miers, and Bolten, instructing them to continue to ignore congressional demands for information about anything they did while at the While House.

Lawyers familiar with the negotiations say they will likely result in testimony from all three three aides in some form. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the House Judiciary Committee, has continued to press for sworn testimony before the committee.

Read more: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/02/court-gives-obama-an-extention-in-subpoena-case.html

[Adsos Letter]

1. Conyers? press?

I suppose...

[L. Coyote]

2. Drip, drip, drip, stall, stall, stall, until the statute of limitations expires!!

[Supersedeas]

3. testimony....in some form (like i don't recall in a nonpublic, no sworn setting)