Monday, March 26, 2007
Bush DoJ Official Finds Part of the Constitution Worth Keeping - the Fifth Amendment (10:12 am)
After the Bush administration having claimed that the Vice Presidency is a fourth branch of government, after having disposed of habeas corpus, after having trashed several Amendments, and after having claimed that Congress does not really have all the powers explicitly granted to it, now all of a sudden one senior Bush administration official has found a part of the Constitution she really really likes and wants to preserve.
Laurie Kellman for AP reports:
Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday.
“The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real,” said the lawyer, John Dowd.
posted by Brian Zick
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When republican’s in this White House’s DoJ run under the protection of the law, in this case the 5th Amendment, you’ve got to laugh to keep from cryin. They’ve flauted and subverted the law for the sake of politics for 7 years and now they run under and hide behind the 5th.
A Libertarian I know once told me that “a conservative is liberal who’s just been mugged.”
Now we know that a Liberal is a conservative who’s just been arrested.
May Bush and his ilk supply us with many more Liberal’s.
posted by Patrick McGinley on 3-27-07 at 12:30 PM