{"id":11653,"date":"2007-07-25T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/25\/contemptuous.html"},"modified":"2007-07-25T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T00:07:02","slug":"contemptuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/25\/contemptuous.html","title":{"rendered":"Contemptuous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, Congress has taken the next step in getting into a Constitutional slap-down with the White House, with the House Judiciary Committee citing Josh Bolton and Harriet Miers with Contempt of Congress<\/a> (which then requires a full House vote to confirm it).  Bolton and Miers, of course, were ordered by the White House not to testify under oath before Congress regarding the whole Federal Attorney Firing Scandal.<\/p>\n

To be sure, for a Contempt citation to stick, it has to be pursued by the Department of Justice.  And, just to make things interesting, the White House has informed the DoJ that they are not to enforce any Contempt citation related to a Presidential exercise of Executive Privilege.  I.e., just like the mantra of “National Security,” the Executive gets to do what it damn well pleases, and neither the Legislature nor (heaven forbid) the Judiciary gets to weigh in on the matter.<\/p>\n

So, if Bush & Co. stick to their guns — what comes next?  If they just keep saying, “Nope, can’t do anything to us, and anything you try to do that would invalidate executive prerogative we just won’t consider to be valid itself –” what can <\/em>Congress actually do?  Does even impeachment <\/em>hold any real threat?<\/p>\n

When folks are shamelessly obdurate, what is “reasonable to expect” goes out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, Congress has taken the next step in getting into a Constitutional slap-down with the White House, with the House Judiciary Committee citing Josh Bolton and Harriet Miers with Contempt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10732,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/its_our_party_and_well_li.html","url_meta":{"origin":11653,"position":0},"title":"“It’s our party and we’ll lie if we want to …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jul-07 9:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"The ongoing show-down over using \"executive privilege\" as a means of shrugging off any oversight continues.\u00a0 Congress continues to seek to interview some key White House folks, and the White...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8569,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/10\/swell.html","url_meta":{"origin":11653,"position":1},"title":"Swell","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Oct-05 9:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been tacitly accepting Harriet Miers nomination to SCOTUS because, well, if she has folks on both sides of the political divide feeling irked, she's probably doing something right (and...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139032,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/what-does-contempt-of-congress-really-mean.html","url_meta":{"origin":11653,"position":2},"title":"What does “Contempt of Congress” really mean?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jun-19 7:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ultimately, Congressional checks are limited against an Administration without shame.","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2020"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2020","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2020"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160114-donald-trump-2-ap-11605B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160114-donald-trump-2-ap-11605B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/160114-donald-trump-2-ap-11605B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8593,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/03\/another_interes.html","url_meta":{"origin":11653,"position":3},"title":"Another interesting nomination","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Oct-05 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Evidently Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to replaced O'Conner on the bench has folks on both sides of the aisle all a-twitter. 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