The House Judiciary Committee filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to force the White House chief of staff and the former White House counsel to cooperate with the committee’s investigation into the firing of a group of federal prosecutors.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the committee in federal District Court for the District of Columbia, names as defendants Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, and Joshua B. Bolten, the White House chief of staff. The lawsuit seeks to compel Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten to provide testimony and documents about the firing of nine United States attorneys. …
Mr. Bolten and Ms. Miers are subpoenaed as part of the committee’s yearlong investigation into the circumstances of the firings. Questions over whether politics played a role led to an uproar in Congress and calls for the resignation of former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, who stepped down last summer.
At the time of the House vote, the White House said it had tried to cooperate with the committee and provide evidence short of direct testimony. Both the White House and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, Mr. Gonzales’s successor, have said the Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten do not have to testify before the committee because of executive privilege. The Judiciary Committee said the Justice Department had declined to pursue the contempt citations, which led to the filing of the civil lawsuit.
This is clearly another bone throne to the wacky left who are still convinced that there was some terribly conspiracy afoot over the firing of a handful of federal prosecutors. It still hasn't occurred to the House Dems that the president has the right to fire federal prosecutors at any time and for any reason, and that right cannot be overturned by Congress.
This suit will go nowhere.
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