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House Has Filed Contempt Charges For Harriet Miers & Josh Bolten
2008-03-10 18:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST From: Think Progress AP reports: The House Judiciary Committee has filed suit to force former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten to provide information about the firing of U.S. attorneys. The lawsuit filed in federal court Monday says Miers is not immune from ...
By: Suzie-Q
It worked so well the first time
2008-02-10 08:20:00 Apparently not enough sports fans follow politics or somebody would have noticed that Roger Clemon’s door-to-door lobbying on Capitol Hill is very similar to what Harriet Miers did when her nomination to the Supreme Court was in trouble.
By: One Sentence
Congressman Wexler Questions Bush?s New Attorney General About Impeachment
2008-02-09 06:48:00 Attorney General Mukasey refuses to enforce contempt of Congress for Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton’s refusal to testify before Congress. Their refusal to appear suggests they have been told not to do so and it appears that the Mukasey is poised to support their refusal. The following video shows the questioning of the Attorney ...
By: What's Going On
John Roberts v. Harriet Miers v. What the Fuck?
2007-09-07 16:20:00 A hearty "What the Fuck??" goes out to Robert Draper, who in his new book coming out, Dead Certain, claims that John Roberts suggested to President Bush that Harriet Miers be nominated for the Supreme Court.All I can say is...What the Fuck?Let's talk about the ways that does NOT make sense in the world of reality in which we (but not Draper) live. In fact, lets not even talk about them, and lets let a more respected series of authorities do it.In an interview with Rachel Sklar of the HuffPo, Jeffrey Toobin -- author of an eagerly anticipated book on the Supreme Court coming out later this month, The Nine -- explained the significance of JGR's official denial: "The Supremes rarely react to stuff in the press, one way or the other."Toobin attributes the difference between his and Draper's account as probably a case of broken telephone: "The White House tried the idea [of Miers as a SCOTUS nominee] out on a variety of people, including, no doubt, Roberts, who got to know Miers durin...
By: Wikilaw
House Judiciary Committee approves contempt resolution against Bolten and M
2007-07-25 21:32:00 The House Judiciary Committee, in a straight party-line vote, approved a contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, setting up a constitutional battle between the Bush administration and Congress over executive privilege. After several hours of skirmishing over whether to send a contempt resolution to the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Bush tells Harriet Miers to defy subpoena
2007-07-18 21:15:00 George W. Bush is claiming executive privilege in an unprecedented way. He’s asking somebody to defy Congress and risk contempt of Congress charges. Forbes reports: President Bush ordered his former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to testify Thursday before a House panel investigating U.S. attorney firings. Sarah Taylor testified last ...
By: 86 43 Blog
Harriet Miers May Be Charged With Criminal Contempt
2007-07-11 23:38:00 by- Suzie-Q @ 2:39 PM MST After the Senate Judiciary Committee heard from former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, the House Judiciary Committee announced that the White House has asked former Counsel Harriet Miers to not even appear before a similar hearing in the firing of 8 US Attorneys on Thursday. The refusal to appear ...
By: Suzie-Q
Ex-Bush Aide Won?t Answer Senate Queries
2007-07-11 17:32:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - Loyal even after leaving the White House, President Bush’s former political director Sara M. Taylor obeyed his instructions and declined to answer Congress’ questions Wednesday about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors. But Democrats insisted that the decision to cooperate with their subpoena?or not?is hers. “It is apparent that this White ...
By: The Hot Joints
Bush Denies Congress Access to Aides
2007-07-09 19:47:00 President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors. The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews. In a letter to the heads of the House ...
By: The Hot Joints
Judiciary Committees Issue Subpoenas for Former Bush Aides
2007-06-13 21:29:00 Sara Taylor, former White House political director who reported directly to Karl Rove, was subpoenaed on Wednesday for documents and testimony regarding the U.S. attorney firings. On Wednesday, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees issued subpoenas for former Bush aides Sara M. Taylor and Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers was President Bush?s former White House counsel and Sara Taylor was the former White House political director who worked directly for Karl Rove. The showdown continues between Capital Hill Democrats and President Bush over Attorney General Gonzales and testimony over the firing of 9 U.S. attorneys last year with the issue of these subpoenas. President Bush has said previously that he would not allow his aides to testify publicly. ?By refusing to cooperate with congressional committees, the White House continues its pattern of confrontation over cooperation. The White House cannot have it both ways, it cannot stonewall congressional investigations by r...
Harriet Miers returns to Texas law firm
2007-04-20 18:24:00 DALLAS, April 20: Harriet Miers, former White House counsel and U.S. Supreme Court nominee, is returning to the Texas law firm she left for Washington six years ago.
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