Hey, remember the U.S. attorney scandal? Fishy potentially-motivated-by-partisanship firings of nine U.S. attorneys by the White House?

Well, Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hasn't forgotten. At the Democratic National Convention yesterday, Talking Points Memo's David Kurtz asked Leahy for reaction to the news that a U.S. district court judge has refused to stay an order that former White House aide Harriet Miers is legally required to testify about the firings.

Leahy had this to say:

"The White House is essentially saying, 'We're above the law; the rest of the rest of the world has to follow the law.' That's not the way it works.

Just because someone works in the White House, they're subject to the same laws as everybody else...

I intend to keep on — and if they're trying to run out the clock to the end of this Congress, I remind them. I'll still be chairman next year."

After all these years it's still a bit flabbergasting that such a simple concept — in America, no one is above the law — is completely lost on the Bush administration. (Seeing as how escaping monarchical edicts and founding a government of equal citizens is sorta why this country was founded in the first place.)

Watch Kurtz's talk with Leahy here.

Cross-posted on PFAW's brand-spankin' new blog.