White House and Congress going to court

By GottaLaff

Dear Wish Fairy, please do your magic:

Lawyers for the White House and Congress are headed to court Monday in a dispute over whether top aides to President Bush must provide evidence in a House investigation.

The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee is demanding documents and testimony from the president’s chief of staff, Josh Bolten, and former lawyer, Harriet Miers, about the firing of federal prosecutors. The White House says Congress can’t do that because of the separation-of-powers doctrine. [...] A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for 10 a.m. [...]

The hearing will be the first appearance in court since Miers and Bolten snubbed Congress nearly a year ago. Observers expect the court battle to continue perhaps all the way to the Supreme Court, and a resolution is not predicted before President Bush leaves office.

Running out the clock has become an art form. And if it goes to the Supreme Court, chalk it up. Wish Fairy, can you give us a hand?