Posted on 07/10/2008 8:39:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political guru, refused to obey an order to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday.
Rove's lawyer asserted that Rove was "immune" from the subpoena the committee had issued, arguing that the committee could not compel him to testify due to "executive privilege."
The panel is investigating allegations that Rove and his White House allies dismissed U.S. attorneys and prosecuted officials who they saw as political opponents.
The panel subpoenaed Rove in May after his lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, made clear the former White House deputy chief of staff would not appear voluntarily.
Luskin responded immediately that Rove still would not appear, prompting a threat of prosecution from the Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, and Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat who chairs the subcommittee on commercial and administrative law.
"A refusal to appear in violation of the subpoena could subject Mr. Rove to contempt proceedings, including statutory contempt under federal law and proceedings under the inherent contempt authority of the House of Representatives," Conyers and Sanchez wrote.
"We are unaware of any proper legal basis for Mr. Rove's refusal to even appear today as required by the subpoena," Sanchez said Thursday morning when Rove failed to show up. "The courts have made clear that no one -- not even the president -- is immune from compulsory process. That is what the Supreme Court rules in U.S. v. Nixon and Clinton v. Jones."
In May, Conyers contrasted Rove's refusal to testify before Congress with his paid work as a commentator for the Fox News Channel and Newsweek magazine.
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Karl Rove, just one of 200 million americans in contempt of congress.
Bring it on.
Such behavior will spark the 2nd American Revolution, which, in my view, is both inevitable and desirable.
yeah, i agree.
controlling the three branches of government would only embolden
the democrats to have a war crimes tribunal.
democrats are liberal-socialists.
[cue the “William Tell” Overture]
The Magnificent Bastard...rides again!
Nothing’s going to change until federal marshalls march on Congress and uphold their pledge to defend us “against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.
The arrogance is so bald and unflinching because they get away with it. No mention that clinton fired the entire lot US Attorneys when they came into power.
After stealing the last 2 elections this one should be a piece of cake! ;-) /sarc(if needed)
I don’t blame him. This is probably a perjury trap for him.
I agree with the rest of your post also. And probably more that a few of us will be interred for our own “protection”.
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/eureka-times-standard/TIMC2QO2HEEH746V2
Democrats are treasonous Marxists.
that too.
i just finished jonah goldberg’s book “liberal socialism”
and i recommend it hightly!
liberal socialism was a positive term in the days of teddy roosevelt, herbert hoover, woody wilson, and fdr. republicans and democrats were liberal-socialists.
they all admired mussolini and hitler.
thanks,
ken
America is heading that way. We're too divided a nation to stay together. The Leftists have seen to that.
He should come in complete gorilla costume, sit for a moment - say: ooh-ughhh and pelt them with peanuts and bananas, that is what those self absorbed dopes deserve./Just Asking - seoul62......
I think you meant "interned", but "interred" may be a result as well.
Could Rove just show up, and take the 5th?
Yes, they have.
It is past time to Refresh the Tree of Liberty.
I did. Thanks.
Someone posted than when the communists take over a Nation the population goes down a third. I o not think that we will be an exception to this.
The thing is, from what I see now is that most people in America will be too stupid to realize what is happening or the role they played in bring it about. They will blame it on Bush.
Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever.
This month, just 9%
Oh .. I really like that.
Rove says: “I’ll appear when you subpoena all the Clinton hacks who fired 93 US attorneys.”
That is what you should have done years ago, Demonrats!
Also, in a normal world where people are held accouintible, neither Reid or Pelosi would be re-elected after they idiotically promised two years ago to lower gas prices.
While I'm on a roll, how does someone stay with OB after he drastically changed his "get out now position" on Iraq? Take about bait and switch.
I agree.
I never used to think this way.
But since the Senate failed to do their duty and convict Bill Clinton in 1999 and Gore tired to steal the election in 2000,there has been a foreshadowing of things to come for anyone who has eyes to see.
We have been spared what has happened to many other countries by God’s grace for a very long time.
We are on a collision course where the American people will be forced to decide if a governnment of the people, by the people, and for the people will indeed perish from the face of the earth.
Thank you, Karl.
Congress, cram your subpoena in whatever orifice your species traditionally crams things.
xlnt
Good for you! (and us)
If it happens I predict it starts with a mutiny in the armed forces against their hopelessly incompetent and fiercely anti-American commander-in-chief. Everytime McCain throws another advisor under the bus, it feeds my belief that a revolution is not mere conjecture but a fait accompli. I think we should cheer it because we could not survive Democrat control over all branches of government.
I can see clearly where the wheels will be in motion for the Joint Chiefs to ignore the Obamacy. He will replace them and it may come to Numbered Command to pick it up.
“We’re too divided a nation to stay together.”
I think it’s more accurate to say that many Americans have been deceived by the glamor of evil.
To say “divided” rather implies that both sides are on comparable moral and intellectual planes.
As opposed to how Democrats are pursuing former members of the Administration and threatening them with prosecution...
I smell a double standard that doesn't just include the fact that Democrats routinely hire and fire people based on political affiliation or resistance and opposition to their agenda.
Uh, I don't seem to remember the Dems going after the Clintons for firing all 93 U.S. attorneys.
</sarc>
Yep. I’m ready for the next Civil War. And guess what? We have the military on our side!
Clinton was “interned”......
And it wouldn't stop them from issuing new subpoenas for any and all other charges they could invent, no doubt down to the heinous pulling the tag off the mattress crime.
The 5th Amendment is a two-way street, even though it's been forgotten imo and modern jurisprudence doesn't seem to treat it that way..
Take "Scooter" Libby for example: in today's climate of "perjury traps" wouldn't Libby have been better off to assert his 5th Amendment rights not to have testified at all? Say nothing even to the point of having his attorney invoke the right?
Input from FR lawyers and AALs (Almost A Lawyer, as they say in the bar rooms) needed?
Karl Rove is awesome and brilliant! They're are just jealous because they can't get a job on FOX news.
Good use of the word there :)
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