by emptywheel | Jul 31, 2008 | emptywheel
Judge Bates just issued his opinion in the Miers and Bolten contempt case–and he ruled in favor of the House. Miers will have to appear and Bolten will have to turn over the documents a description of the documents he is withholding. (I guess all it took was for...
by emptywheel | Jul 31, 2008 | emptywheel
I wanted to elaborate on what I said in yesterday’s post–to talk about where I think Rove’s contempt vote is going. As I said yesterday, HJC expects that John Bates to rule on their suit pertaining to Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten sometime in August....
by emptywheel | Jul 30, 2008 | emptywheel
As many of you noted while we were having our little server issues this morning, HJC just recommended Rove be held in contempt by a vote of 20-14. The big challenge at this point will be convincing Speaker Pelosi–whose phone number is (202) 225-0100–to...
by emptywheel | Jul 26, 2008 | emptywheel
I know, I know, a lot of you want me to talk about Rove in Ohio. But I’ve been distracted with something else so I haven’t had a chance to assess it yet, and anyway, I’ve been pondering this assessment from Scott Horton: The ultimate problem here is...
by emptywheel | Jul 23, 2008 | emptywheel
I wanted to look closely at the exchange between Congresswoman Sanchez and Attorney General Mukasey to see if it gets us any closer to determining whether DOJ reviewed Bush’s invocation of absolute immunity for Rove–and specifically whether Mukasey bought...
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