Office search riles GOP (Jefferson)

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Jefferson raid violates precedent, they say

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House Republicans continued Tuesday to strongly denounce the weekend FBI raid of Democrat William Jefferson's congressional office as a possible violation of the Constitution's separation of powers.

Telling reporters that he was trying to restrain his outrage, House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he expects congressional leaders will talk about "the Justice Department's invasion of the legislative branch."

"I've got to believe, at the end of the day, it's going to end up across the street at the Supreme Court," he said.

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U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said Tuesday that the government believed it had no alternative but to search Jefferson's office.