Government lawyers had a deadline—Thursday—to turn over to the House Judiciary Committee certain White House documents related to the ongoing probe of the U.S. attorney firings. Yesterday’s deadline came and went. No documents. But Justice Department lawyers have an answer: the case is temporarily on hold.
On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a temporary administrative stay of a July 31 district court order that the government is vigorously challenging on appeal. The order, issued by U.S. District Judge John Bates, compels Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, and Joshua Bates, the White House chief of staff, to appear under subpoena before the House Judiciary Committee. The government must also turn over White House documents the committee has asked to review.
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