JUDGE RULES CONGRESS HAS RIGHT TO SUBPOENA MIERS & BOLTEN

Today a federal district judge ruled that Congress does have a well-established right to force former Bush aides Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten to testify before its committees and produce documents and records. The judge made hamburger out of George Bush's preposterous claim that executive privilege prevents Congress from serving and executing subpoenas on Miers and Bolten.

Previous decisions of the Supreme Court have ruled that the Executive's assertion of unlimited executive privilege is without legal basis or foundation.

Here is the decision of Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia.

I will have more to say on this after I have more time to study the court's holdings.