Judiciary Chairman Conyers is not afraid to stir the pot
By: Daniel W. Reilly
March 12, 2008 05:12 PM EST
from The Politico
Even for a man who has served on the House Judiciary Committee since 1965, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) is entering uncharted territory. Conyers, who became chairman of the committee after the Democrats won control of the House in 2006, now finds himself at the center of an unprecedented constitutional fight against the executive branch.
As chairman, Conyers is taking the lead on a groundbreaking civil lawsuit in which the committee is asking a federal judge to force White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers to comply with subpoenas the committee served as part of its investigation of the Bush administration’s firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.
“The [administration] was thumbing their nose at the legal process,” Conyers said in an interview with Politico. “As commander in chief, [Bush] thinks he is above the law.”
Conyers says he “didn’t have any choice” but to file the suit after Attorney General Michael Mukasey made it clear that the Justice Department would not prosecute the House’s contempt charges against Bolten and Miers.
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March 12, 2008 05:12 PM EST
from The Politico
Even for a man who has served on the House Judiciary Committee since 1965, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) is entering uncharted territory. Conyers, who became chairman of the committee after the Democrats won control of the House in 2006, now finds himself at the center of an unprecedented constitutional fight against the executive branch.
As chairman, Conyers is taking the lead on a groundbreaking civil lawsuit in which the committee is asking a federal judge to force White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers to comply with subpoenas the committee served as part of its investigation of the Bush administration’s firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.
“The [administration] was thumbing their nose at the legal process,” Conyers said in an interview with Politico. “As commander in chief, [Bush] thinks he is above the law.”
Conyers says he “didn’t have any choice” but to file the suit after Attorney General Michael Mukasey made it clear that the Justice Department would not prosecute the House’s contempt charges against Bolten and Miers.
(Continued here.)
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