GOP leaders want to file Bolten-Miers court brief

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

Senior House Republicans have asked a federal court to allow them to weigh in against Democrats’ attempt to force two White House aides to testify about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) are among the Republicans who want to submit their arguments against Democratic contempt citations for White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers. Top GOP Judiciary Committee Reps. Lamar Smith (Texas) and Chris Cannon (Utah) joined the two leaders in the request.

In a brief filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the House Republicans said the legal wrangling with the administration could seriously erode congressional subpoena power and strengthen the executive branch.

The four Republicans said they have opposed the Democrats’ pursuit of a contempt citation because getting the judicial branch involved in the dispute could severely undermine the House’s ability to exercise oversight on the executive branch in the future.

“It is in their continuing interest in the preservation of the House’s oversight prerogatives, and in sparing the courts a premature need to enter into the dispute, that prompts them to offer their views to the court,” GOP lawyers wrote on behalf of the House Republicans.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-leaders-want-to-file-bolten-miers-court-brief-2008-05-13.html

[mitchleary]

1. What good does giving

out a contempt citation if it is never enforced?

[Fridays Child]

2. Orwellian logic.

Complete and utter bullshit.

[truebrit71]

3. That's just too funny for words...

..."House Republicans said the legal wrangling with the administration could seriously erode congressional subpoena power and strengthen the executive branch."

Umm...fellas...when subpoenas go unanswered and unenforced does that not do the same thing?

The double-speak these reptiles spew is simply amazing....How on earth do you make such a specious argument with a straight face?

[Frustratedlady]

4. Practice?

Just sayin'!

[Canuckistanian]

5. Yeah, I had to read that a couple of times

But then again, logic was never their strong suit.

[Supersedeas]

6. What?!? Having the Judiciary to affirm Congressional oversight is a bad thing??

[Winterblues]

7. Wow they should have campaigned for their guy in Mississippi

This is the type of Logic Americans are coming to the polls in record numbers for....Republican philosophy is when you find yourself in a hole you dig a lot harder....