{"id":198582,"date":"2007-10-28T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/28\/it-appears-that-the-house-may-be-voting-on-contempt-citations-against-bolton-and-miers\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T03:17:00","slug":"it-appears-that-the-house-may-be-voting-on-contempt-citations-against-bolton-and-miers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/28\/it-appears-that-the-house-may-be-voting-on-contempt-citations-against-bolton-and-miers\/","title":{"rendered":"It Appears that the House May Be Voting on Contempt Citations Against Bolton and Miers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thera are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004573.php\">reports that the House leadership will be moving toward a vote on contempt citations against  Harriet Meirs and Josh Bolton<\/a> for their refusal to testify on the US Attorney firings scandal.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that they have the balls to go through this, but I doubt it.  An interesting note, contempt of congress is a crime against the congress, not against the republic, and as such is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">NOT<\/span> covered by presidential pardons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thera are reports that the House leadership will be moving toward a vote on contempt citations against Harriet Meirs and Josh Bolton for their refusal to testify on the US Attorney firings scandal. I hope that they have the balls to go through this, but I doubt it. An interesting note, contempt of congress is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198582"}],"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=198582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}