Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers will testify before the House Judiciary Committee in connection with a congressional investigation into the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys, according to an agreement announced Wednesday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.
The agreement ends a long-running feud between the House of Representatives and former President George W. Bush over the executive’s power to shield current and former aides from congressional subpoenas. It also allows the Obama administration to avoid taking a position in a sensitive separation-of-powers case that would have been cemented as precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
