Judge skeptical of Obama in executive privilege fight

[Chris_]

Judge skeptical of Obama in executive privilege fight

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson spent most of an hour-and-a-half hearing Wednesday sharply questioning Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ian Gershengorn about the administration’s assertion that a lawsuit the House panel filed last year should be dismissed and the legislative and executive branches of government left to work out their differences by themselves.

“That lack of a judicial role is a deliberate part of the constitutional structure,” Gershengorn insisted, as he urged the judge to stick with the historic practice of the Congress and executive agencies sorting out such fights on their own.

Jackson, an Obama appointee, repeatedly suggested that Gershengorn was giving the judiciary short shrift. “You keep talking about the two [branches] as if the third one isn’t there,” she said.

The Justice Department warned that if Jackson entertains the lawsuit, Congressional committees will regularly ask the courts to step into the routine, interbranch fights over information sought by Congress. But Kircher said the effort involved in litigation and the relatively slow speed of the courts would leave most such battles being resolved by the parties much as they usually are now.

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Even Obama's lawyers are arrogant.  Nice to see one of them get slapped down by the judge.

[txradioguy]

Politico

Even Obama's lawyers are arrogant.  Nice to see one of them get slapped down by the judge.

If Holder had cooperated the lawsuit wouldn't have been necessary and this would be a moot point.

But given the Empirical nature of this Administration...

[DefiantSix]

If Holder had cooperated the lawsuit wouldn't have been necessary and this would be a moot point.

But given the Empirical IMPERIAL nature of this Administration...

Fixt 'er for ya, bud.