Delay Sought in House Judiciary Lawsuit (Miers, Bolten)

[babylonsister]

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/legal_beat/2009/02/delay-sought-in-house-judiciar.html

Delay Sought in House Judiciary Lawsuit

By Keith Perine | February 13, 2009 5:03 PM



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The House Judiciary Committee sued former Bush White House counsel Harriet Miers and Bush White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten last year, seeking enforcement of subpoenas for documents and, in Miers' case, testimony related to the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006. A district court ruled for the committee, and the defendants appealed.

The D.C. Circuit is likely to grant the extension, for two reasons: House lawyers are okay with it; and when it comes to executive-legislative disputes, courts usually do everything they can to encourage the two sides to work things out on their own.

Bolten and Miers did not comply with the subpoenas, issued in 2007, after President Bush made a blanket claim of executive privilege. The case, a rare test of the legality of such a privilege claim, could establish a new judicial standard for the validity of a privilege claim asserted by a former president.

The Obama administration has not announced whether President Obama would assert the same privilege claim, in the interest of preserving presidential prerogative, or take a different view, and perhaps even provide the Judiciary committee with the relevant Bush White House records. But all of that is being hashed through now.

[Parche]

1. now is the time

now that bush and cheney are not in office anymore

we can finally do something

[NV Whino]

2. Another WTF moment brought to you by BushCo

"House lawyers are okay with it; and when it comes to executive-legislative disputes, courts usually do everything they can to encourage the two sides to work things out on their own."

Work things out on their own? Who are you kidding?

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Yeah what's the rush?

Anyone facing a subpoena can stall for a year or two or three or four, or just tell Congress to go pound sand. Why should we treat Meirs and Bolten any different that ordinary citizens. By all means take your time. No problem.




:sarcasm:

[justgamma]

4. And President Clinton is

:banghead: "Why didn't I think of that?"