*BREAKING* Leahy sets Thursday vote for contempt resolutions against Rove, Bolten

[cali]

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled a committee vote Thursday on contempt resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential political guru Karl Rove for failing to respond to subpoenas.

Under Judiciary Committee rules, the vote could be postponed for a week, but Leahy said he intends to move the criminal contempt resolutions as soon as possible. Last week, he rejected the White House's executive privilege claim in preventing Rove and Bolten from appearing before his panel, calling it "overbroad, unsubstantiated, and not legally valid," setting the stage for Thursday's showdown.

Rove and Bolten were subpoenaed earlier in the year by the Senate panel as part of the investigation into the sacking of nine U.S. attorneys. President Bush, citing executive privilege, refused to make the two senior aides available for questioning by the committee.

Leahy predicted that the contempt resolutions could reach the Senate floor sometime early next year.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1207/Leahy_sets_Thursday_vote_for_contempt_resolutions_against_Rove_Bolten.html

[cali]

1. I suspect that Leahy would not have set the

vote for tomorrow if he didn't have a committment to vote 'yea' from all the dems on the the JC.

[lonestarnot]

10. Well get the fuck on with it then!

[cali]

11. lol!!

It's scheduled for tomorrow. Funny as hell that in light of that, your comment is: "well get the fuck on with it then!"

DU is a riot sometimes.

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

12. Tomorrow tomorrow... always tofuckingmorrow.

[cali]

14. what part of the vote is scheduled for tomorrow

is so hard for you to grasp? :rofl:

[lonestarnot]

15. Well aren't you full of yourself this a.m.

Nothing different there.

[cornermouse]

2. Impeachment of Bush and Cheney would have been better

and much more effective. Most of what they've been doing is nothing more than window dressing.

[cali]

3. impeachment begins in the House

Leahy is a Senator. This is one way to work toward holding the criminal cabal accountable.

[Clovis Sangrail]

4. what happened to the Meyers contempt charge? nt

[cali]

5. I think the House is working on that

but it's the Rove contempt charge that I want to see.

[Catshrink]

8. This is the first domino to fall

Rove might be the next (hoping!).

[Hieronymus]

6. Wonderful

[cali]

7. kick

[me b zola]

9. recommended

Thanks, cali.

[spanone]

13. K&R

[lonestarnot]

16. kick

[Virginia Dare]

17. Beautiful, bring it on!

nail their asses to the wall...:thumbsup:

[rateyes]

18. Which, if it passes, goes to the Senate floor, where, if it passes...

it will get sent to SURPRISE, SURPRISE-------MUKASEY (because the Senate leadership doesn't have the balls for inherent contempt)...and, we know where it will go from there.

Leahy should've stuck to his guns earlier on the refusal to confirm Mukasey without the subpoenas being honored.

Another, IMO, "too little, too late" gesture from the leadership.

[Wizard777]

19. Go get 'em Leahy! n/t