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.
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