So what's Congress going to do now?Karl Rove received a subpoena from a House Judiciary subcommittee. The committee wants to talk to Rove about whether or not he exerted political pressure in a blatantly partisan set-up which ended with a former governor of Alabama going to jail.
Rove has contended he has immunity due to his position in the White House.
He ignored the subpoena.
John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, along with Representative Linda Sanchez, sent a letter to Rove's lawyer insisting that Rove comply or else. Well, the "else" was stated this way: "...we will proceed to consider all other appropriate recourse." About a week ago, Conyers and Sanchez indicated that might hold Rove in contempt if he defied their subpoena.
Rove has left the building, er, the country, says his lawyer. But this was a trip planned long ago.
Right.
What will the committee do?
This committee is made up of members of the same Congress that just bent over in obeisance to Mr. Bush by voting approval of his illegal FISA bill. Do you think they will follow through on their threat to hold Rove in contempt?
Rawstory has more here.
1 comment:
That is a disgrace! He has defied a legitimate request and has fled the country. What next? If Congress cannot perform its duties, how do we govern? If the next administration allows such things, we have lost a great deal. It is not the party, it is the system that we must be concerned with.
Bob Poris
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