Appeals Court Seeks to Weigh In on Battle Over Miers Subpoena

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http://www.truthout.org/article/court-seeks-briefs-bush-appeal-miers-subpoena-ruling

Friday 05 September 2008

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by: Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspaper

Washington - A federal appeals court is mulling whether it has the authority to step into a constitutional battle between Congress and the White House over legislative subpoena power.

Late Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in response to a Justice Department request, ordered lawyers for the House of Representatives and the White House to brief it by 4 p.m. Sept. 10 on whether it has jurisdiction to delay a lower court's order that former White House counsel Harriet Miers must appear before Congress to testify about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.