GUEST 17 Dec 05 - 04:19 PM

Thank you for repeating in such fine additional detail what I thought I said:

It is within the authority, and is the responsibility here, of the Congress to investigate, to determine if laws have been violated, and to submit questions of legality to the Court. It is very difficult for the Courts to do anything unless, and until, a question is submitted to them.

No argument at all. There are of course procedural steps that must be followed for an investigation by, or at the direction of, the Legislature, and a Special Prosecutor and/or Grand Jury may or may not be the course chosen if/as a meaningful investigation proceeds.

Not a recommendation or advocacy of any kind, but a prediction:

"It is very unlikely that the politically driven investigation that the Legislative branch is likely to conduct will ever send a question to the Court."

It would be comforting to think that they might, but politics is involved.

It's remotely possible that a resolution (consistent with Constitutional principles???) may be achieved by investigation alone, but politics is involved.

John