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Here we go, folks:

Bush is claiming executive privilege, the White House won’t turn over the papers, and Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor will not testify.

Positive sign: The AP is actually using the phrase “moving toward a constitutional showdown” in the first sentence of the story.

Negative sign: CNN has buried the story over in the “latest news” colum, below “Divided court rejects school diversity plan” and “High court blocks Texas killer’s execution,” and right above “Town mourns cheerleaders killed in crash.”

Next up — Contempt of Congress charges, which would have to be enforced by the Justice Dept., which is at the center of this whole mess already……and then a court battle over Constitutional authority, which will go to the Bush-stocked Supreme Court.

Expect that nothing will come of this. It’s official — we no longer have a Legislature.

Starting July 2nd on ebay, Joss Whedon will be auctioning off a private dinner with him at the San Diego Comic Con, with the proceeds going to Equality Now. There’s also some other Whedon-related swag up for auction.

Click the previous link to be taken to his eBay page, or read more in this interview with Whedon at CBR.

Pretty nifty.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, the Justice Department and the National Security Council for documents relating to the warrantless eavesdropping program.

Finally.

Of course, this just means that the shit is going to hit the fan, because (to directly quote the story) the White House gave no indication that it would comply.

Can you say ‘Constitutional Crisis?’ I knew that you could.

We’re heading to a precipice, folks — exactly the nightmare scenario that people feared would occur during the Nixon administration: That Congress would exercise its Constitutional authority of oversight, and the President would refuse it. Even Nixon was smart enough, in the end, to back down and resign. Bush is certainly not that smart, and Cheney (who, as the Washington Post has fairly conclusively revealed is actually the de facto ruler of this country) is far too authoritarian to come under heel.

I fully expect the corporate media to portray this question of pure Constitutional authority as ‘partisan politics’ on the part of the Democrats, too. Can’t tell the Sheeple that there’s a battle going on against an out-of-control “unitary executive,” after all. That’s way too scary.