House Judiciary holds Bolten, Miers in contempt

   The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress, setting up a constitutional showdown between the two branches of government.

The vote followed a heated debate over the facts of an ongoing investigation into the Justice Department's firing of several U.S. attorneys. Miers and Bolten refused to comply with Judiciary Committee subpoenas for testimony in the matter. Democrats are trying to find out whether politics played an improper role in the prosecutors' dismissals and what role, if any, White House officials played.

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