BREAKING: Judge Bates Rules for the House

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...

Why the House Is Waiting to Hold Rove in Contempt

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....

Sanchez v. Mukasey on “Executive Privilege”

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...