Group of 20 Former U.S. Attorneys Files Amicus Brief Over Firings

[kpete]

Group of 20 Former U.S. Attorneys Files Amicus Brief Over Firings
By Joe Palazzolo

Legal Times

June 02, 2008


A bipartisan group of 20 former U.S. attorneys is backing the House of Representatives in its legal battle with the Bush administration over subpoena power in the congressional investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.

The House filed suit in March challenging President George W. Bush's assertion of executive privilege to shield his chief of staff Joshua Bolten and ex-White House counsel Harriet Miers from supplying Congress with testimony and records related to the firings.

In a 15-page amicus brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week, the former U.S. attorneys sidestepped prickly legal arguments about the separation of powers and instead urged Judge John Bates to consider the gravity of the investigation.

"It is a matter of the utmost importance for Congress to conduct a complete investigation to determine whether the White House officials have injected, or attempted to inject, partisan considerations into a process that must be rigorously insulated from such considerations," the brief says.

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http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1202421863702

[gasperc]

1. oh shit, here comes the smackdown

Fuck you Rove, you better rev up your ratfucking operation because your about to get your own ratfucking.

[midnight]

2. I don't have legal understanding of why Bush would think

Bolton and Miers would be shielded by executive privledge against a political prosecution relationship, when clinton could not use this against a sexual relationship.

[Frustratedlady]

3. But...but...Clinton took that instance with Monica AS executive privilege.

One might refer to it as pillow talk.

Just sayin'.

[spanone]

4. k&r