balkin.blogspot.com - 1/30/2009
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Does Karl Rove have to testify before Congress? JB Congressman John Conyers' recent subpoena to Karl Rove raises the interesting (and unsettled) question whether former Presidents can successfully invoke executive privilege to prevent their former aides from testifying before Congress or in ...
online.wsj.com - 1/29/2009
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About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior
Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 2007...
and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004 2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public Liaison, and ...
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Rove: Obama's Crowded White House
newsweek.com - 1/30/2009
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newsweek.com —
Just days before he left office, President Bush
instructed former White House aide Karl Rove to refuse...
to cooperate with ongoing congressional inquiries into alleged misconduct during his administration.
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Newsweek: Bush lawyer to Rove — Don't cooperate
online.wsj.com - 2/5/2009
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About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior
Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 2007...
and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004 2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public Liaison, and ...
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Karl Rove Says Expanding Government Won't Help ...
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Will Karl Rove Ever Testify?
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... , four days before Bush left office, specifically on this issue. The message from the then-President? [S]hould his client receive any future subpoenas, Rove “should not appear before Congress” or turn over any documents relating to his time in the White House. The letter told Rove that President Bush was continuing to assert executive privilege over any testimony by Rove—even after he leaves office. Does it matter if an ex-president continues to invoke privilege? At Balkinzation, Jack Balkin was not buying it : The fact that Bush sent these letters while he was still ...
Will Rove Ever Testify?
TalkLeft —
... If new President Obama disagrees with old President Bush about whether Rove should assert executive privilege before Congress, who wins? Jack Balkin argues that the claim of executive privilege is weakened if Obama doesn't get behind it: ...
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dailykos.com 1/27/2009 — Back on January 6th, the House snuck a little present into the rules package that I mentioned over at Congress Matters: There's one more juicy nugget in the rules package that just passed. Regarding the Judiciary Committe's power to continue its ...
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WTF Is It Now?!?
House Judiciary chairman to Satan's porcine handmaiden: "There's a new sheriff in town, motherfucker" Oh, this is sweet: Not only did John Conyers subpoena corpulent antichrist Karl Rove on Monday, he basically told him to cheney himself. The subpoena commanded Rove to appear for a deposition ...
Rove subpoenaed by Congress again —
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by Frank James
If Karl Rove thought congressional Democrats were going to let bygones be bygones, just because one of their own now occupies the White House, he was mistaken.
Rep. John Conyers, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, has subpoenaed Rove, former President Bush's political ...
Rove Subpoenaed by House Committee, Again —
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The House Judiciary Committee today approved a subpoena for former Bush White House Political Director Karl Rove , commanding him to appear before the panel to answer question about his alleged role in the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys in 2005. The move marks the third time Rove has been ...
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(CNN) – House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers issued a new subpoena for former Bush adviser Karl Rove Monday.
Rove was subpoenaed by Conyers last year, but refused to testify before Congress, pointing to executive privilege although he ...
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