{"id":5637,"date":"2008-02-01T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2008-02-02T01:09:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T09:09:50","slug":"former-oh-sos-snubs-congressional-invitation-may-be-subpoenaed-by-us-house-judiciary-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Former OH SoS Snubs Congressional Invitation, May be Subpoenaed by U.S. House Judiciary Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), both of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter<\/a> to the former Ohio Secretary of State and Co-Chair of the state’s Bush\/Cheney ’04 campaign committee, J. Kenneth Blackwell, inviting him to appear next week at a subcommittee oversight hearing on voter suppression issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To the surprise of almost nobody, Blackwell has refused the invitation to testify, claiming his “schedule [would] not permit” him to attend the hearings.<\/p>\n

The snub, according to both the following report from Jon Craig at the Cincinnati Enquirer<\/em> and additional indications given to The BRAD BLOG<\/a> by a Judiciary staffer other than the one quoted by Craig, may lead to an escalation of the longtime standoff between Conyers and Blackwell. A congressional subpoena requiring an appearance by the controversial former SoS, who presided over one of the worst-run Presidential Elections in American history, may well be in the offing.<\/p>\n

As Craig reports today at the Enquirer’s political blog…<\/a><\/p>\n

Blackwell, a Republican from Cincinnati, said he received the invitation, “however, my schedule will not permit me to attend the hearings.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Godfrey, a Conyers spokesman, said Blackwell has not responded and could be subpoenaed if he doesn’t appear voluntarily.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it’s unlikely,” Godfrey said today of a subpoena.<\/p><\/div>\n

Though our own Judiciary source spoke to the same point, if not quite<\/i> as directly, the comments above from Godfrey offer an additional indication that we may be headed to a showdown.<\/p>\n

Such a subpoena would require a majority vote of the committee, which likely wouldn’t come in time for the hearings currently scheduled for next Friday, according to Craig’s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), both of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to the former Ohio Secretary of State and Co-Chair of the state’s Bush\/Cheney ’04 campaign committee, J. Kenneth Blackwell, inviting him to appear next week at a subcommittee oversight hearing on voter suppression issues. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,8,122,6,28,11,322,211,15,198,280,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-election-2004","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-kenneth-blackwell","category-jerrold-nadler","category-john-conyers","category-ohio","category-us-house","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}