{"id":198160,"date":"2007-12-06T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/pat-leahy-moves-on-rove-contempt-citation\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:42:00","slug":"pat-leahy-moves-on-rove-contempt-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/06\/pat-leahy-moves-on-rove-contempt-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Leahy Moves on Rove Contempt Citation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this happens.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004834.php\">Leahy Moves on Rove Contempt Citation<\/a><\/span><br \/>By Paul Kiel &#8211; December 5, 2007, 3:06PM<\/p>\n<p>Karl Rove is gone, but not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has scheduled a vote tomorrow on whether to issue contempt citations to Rove and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten for ignoring Congressional subpoenas from the U.S. attorneys investigation. Of course, Republicans might defer the vote for another week. But at the latest, the citations would be sent to the Senate floor next Thursday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interesting thing is that congress does actually have its own jail in the basement, and the President cannot pardon contempt of congress, because it is an offense against the congress, not the Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope this happens. Leahy Moves on Rove Contempt CitationBy Paul Kiel &#8211; December 5, 2007, 3:06PM Karl Rove is gone, but not forgotten. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has scheduled a vote tomorrow on whether to issue contempt citations to Rove and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten for ignoring Congressional subpoenas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1052,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-crimes","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}