More trouble for Governor Rowland: A lawyer for the state Legislature urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to compel Gov. John G. Rowland to testify before a panel considering his impeachment. At the opening of the two-hour hearing, Rowland's lawyer renewed his past objections to a subpoena ordering the governor's testimony, saying the Legislature was intruding on the separation of powers among branches of government. "The subpoena effectively treats the governor as a subservient officer," Ross Garber said. But the Legislature's lawyer, Cynthia Arato, said courts have already ruled that the judicial branch can subpoena a governor, and she argued the Legislature should receive the same treatment."We're all co-equal branches. If a court's compelling of testimony does not violate the separation of powers, the compelling of testimony by the impeachment committee doesn't," Arato said.
6/18/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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