Subject: Congressional Investigations Paper Topic
From: Carolyn Hart <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:03:20 -0500

Good morning,

I hope you are both enjoying the long weekend.  For my paper topic, I would
like to write about the Senate and House hearings on the U.S. Attorney
firings in 2007, and specifically the contempt of congress charges against
Miers and Bolton by the House of Representatives. I would like to compare
it to the more recent contempt of congress charges by the House against
Eric Holder and Lois Lerner.  I became interested in the topic because in
his book, *Government by Investigation*, Paul C. Light categorizes the US
Attorney firing scandal investigations as "lightweight," and without much
impact, in part because the investigations became so divided along partisan
lines. This paper topic may overlap in part with the question about
executive privilege, but I don't intend to examine it in my paper.  Please
let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions for this topic.

Best,

Carolyn Hart

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Carolyn Hart
J.D. Candidate, 2015
Georgetown University Law School
[email-masked]
(708) 606-4536