There’s lots of great news on the topic of my subpoena. The first is that three legal groups have all swooped in to save me (and cvillenews.com) from myself: Public Citizen, the ACLU of Virginia, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Paul Levy, Rebecca Garrett,...

If you caught the opening session of the 111th Congress yesterday, you saw the House work through its ritual biennial reconstitution, including the adoption of a new set of standing rules. Because every Member of the House is reelected every two years, the House is entirely "new" each time, so they ...

One of the benefits of saturating the American people with scandal is that folks eventually stop paying attention. That’s certainly the case with Plamegate, which is still being investigated despite the president’s best efforts to the contrary and a public that has generally moved on. Ge...

Well, not literally; but he made one thing clear: Rove don’t do subpoenas....

FISA's over. Now back to our regularly scheduled defiance of the law and lack of punishment: Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he tried to influence the prosecu...

When we last left our heroes, House Judiciary committee Democrats had... renewed their demand that former White House political adviser Karl Rove testify publicly on the politicization of the Justice Department but suggested they may accept a compromise in which Rove would be interviewed in private ...

Gen. Michael B. Mukasey was subpoenaed for transcripts of interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the federal inquiry into the leak of a C.I.A. agent’s identity....

Never in my life have I entertained thoughts of being a lawyer: A doctor, yes, at one time, and some other much-less-lucrative pursuits. The closest I got to law school was a summer job when I was in grad school; the law schools career development director hired me to read stacks of surveys from alu...

    Washington - A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name.     The Committee on Oversight and Government Refo...

You couldn't have missed the top recommended diary by Rep. Robert Wexler's (D-FL) campaign on the suggestion that the House hold Karl Rove in inherent contempt for his refusal to testify under oath and in open session in the Don Siegelman matter. But if you did, I'll just tell you that Wexler's quit...