Miers and Bolten push for further delay in congressional testimony.
Miers and Bolten push for further delay in congressional testimony.
Last week U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled that White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers must testify before Congress regarding their role in the 2006 U.S. Attorney purge. Today, however, Miers and Bolten requested that Bates stay his decision to provide time for them to appeal the ruling. In a court filing, they wrote:
Whatever the proper resolution of the extraordinarily important questions presented, the public interest clearly favors further consideration of issues before defendants are required to take actions that may forever alter the constitutional balance of separation of powers.
While the subpoenas expire in January, the case could make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Miers was once a nominee.
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Delay, appeal, run out the clock. The surge is working.
The BushCo 08 motto.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pmJust two more examples of the Repugs run amok. Some day, somehow, they all will meet their fate, it just might take a while, but I do have “Feith”.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pmI would like to see Harriet Miers disbarred. She certainly deserves it.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:55 pm[T]he public interest clearly favors further consideration of issues before defendants are required to take actions that may .
They should have thought about that . . . before they took actions that forever altered the constitutional balance of separation of powers
Now, it’s time for them to testify about it.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:56 pmStonewall, stall, obfuscate, and prevaricate. That’s the SOP (or is that SSOP?)
Cheers,
August 7th, 2008 at 8:57 pmGit yer fat, hairy ass in there and testify. You too, Bolten.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:58 pmPeaceMonkey Says:
Git yer fat, hairy ass in there and testify. You too, Bolten.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
**snort**
August 7th, 2008 at 9:02 pmHorse Hockey! It’s about time the crone, Baba Yaga, and her boss, Koshchey the Deathless took the stand.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:03 pmStall, stall, stall. That is what the Sith Administration will do. Expect Bush to foot drag the subpoenas of the bag lady Miers and Bolten. Again, I look for Miers to be disbarred by the bar association come 2009.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pmAre they just trying to stall until Bush is out of office? And they’re hoping that either President McCain will continue to protect them, or President Obama will be all about “moving forward?”
It will p!ss me off if they turn out to be right…
August 7th, 2008 at 9:15 pmThe public interest clearly favors them showing up and testifying. The public interest is never served by political types sneaking around in the dark.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:29 pm…the public interest clearly favors further consideration of issues before defendants are required to take actions that may forever alter the constitutional balance of separation of powers.
How these people can use terms like “public interest” and “seperation of powers” with a straight face is beyond me. The “public interest” would be served by an administration not intent on hide everything they’ve done, including what they’ve done to destroy the “seperation of powers.”
Have you ever had one of those nightmares that just doesn’t seem to end? Silly question, we’re all living the nightmare.
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August 7th, 2008 at 9:33 pmwow-just imagine how much it’s going to cost us for them to get out of this one
August 7th, 2008 at 9:35 pmif the bush administration can try to sentence Osama Bin Laden’s driver to life for aiding terrorism then there can be no issue in seeking a life sentence for aiding treason – unless of course anyone wants to spill it for immunity right?
“Whatever the proper resolution of the extraordinarily important questions presented, the public interest clearly favors further consideration of issues before defendants are required to take actions that may forever alter the constitutional balance of separation of powers.”
The proper resolution is for you to testify…BEOTCH!!!
Get the F-U-C-K into Congress and TESTIFY, BEOTCH!!!!!
And you too BOLT-ON.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pmgummitch Says:
The public interest clearly favors them showing up and testifying. The public interest is never served by political types sneaking around in the dark.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Baba Yaga and Hand Fetish Bolten don’t care.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:52 pmWhy not have them wait in jail?
August 8th, 2008 at 12:23 amClock
Running
Out…
INHERENT CONTEMPT~! IN THE 110TH Congress~!
August 8th, 2008 at 12:24 amlook carefully at the resume of the judge who ruled against the whitehouse on this one…as I previously mentioned, anyone fit to wear a robe, no mater how partisan, is going to find it almost impossible to justify the train wreck the whitehouse calls “logic” when it comes to executive privledge.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:25 am.
IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE…
… WHY DO THEY HIDE?
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August 8th, 2008 at 2:20 amWhy is there a different set of rules for these people than there is for me or you or any other citizen who has been duly subpoenaed by Congress? If I get subpoenaed by Congress, I have (probably) about 48 hours to show up, plead the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination and deal with whatever Congress decides to ask me. If I don’t comply, I go to jail. Why don’t they have to do this? They don’t legally have to answer Congress’ questions if they feel their answers will incriminate them so, why, if it isn’t purely political (which we all know it is), do they not have to live up to the same rules as the rest of us? This type of stuff really makes me angry! Fascist bastards!
August 8th, 2008 at 2:39 amWhat a great bumper sticker that one would be! ;-)
August 8th, 2008 at 7:17 amRUCerious @17 nailed it; Inherent Contempt. It’s well past time that Congress realised that they’re one of 3 branches of the Federal Government of the United States of America, and Neither a Doormat nor a Rubber Stamp! Frog marching time folks!
August 8th, 2008 at 8:35 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Reid and Save the Constitution!
Okay, from what I’ve read, Bates has scheduled a conference for Aug. 27 to see whether negotiations over the subpoenas had moved forward. My question is, would an appeal override Judge Bates’ Aug 27 deadline?, or does an appeal have to be fast-tracked in order to satisfy the Aug 27 deadline? Also, what grounds do they have for an appeal? I always thought one could appeal a judicial decision only when there was evidence the original case was mishandled in some way, shape or manner. Just because it doesn’t go your way in not sufficient reason to appeal.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:47 am“Whatever the proper resolution of the extraordinarily important questions presented, the public interest clearly favors further consideration of issues before defendants are required to take actions that may forever alter the constitutional balance of separation of powers.”
That’s Rich. Besides presuming that they speak for the public interest, haven’t the defendants already taken actions that alter the constitutional separation of powers? Or is this a threat? If congress enforces the rules in the constitution, Miers, et al, will be required to “alter” the rules so that they don’t have to testify?
August 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm