Politics

Chairman Conyers on Contempt Referral Letter

By Jesse Lee

From the Judiciary Committee on the contempt referral letter:

Conyers Urges U.S. Attorney to Present Contempt Citations to a Grand Jury

(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) referring the Committee’s contempt citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeffrey Taylor:

“Now that the Speaker has referred the contempt citations against Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten to U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, I hope the Justice Department will put the partisan manipulation of our system of justice behind it, and follow its obligation to allow this matter to be addressed by a grand jury. To do otherwise would turn on its head the notion that we are all equally accountable under the law.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).