Scott Bloch, the former Bush administration official who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor contempt of Congress but has been trying to withdraw that plea since a judge ruled he would have to spend at least one month in prison, appeared in a Washington, D.C. court Monday to formally ask a federal judge to reconsider her refusal to allow him to take it back.Bloch’s lawyer wrote in a 12-page motion filed on Monday that “it will be a manifest injustice if this Court does not reconsider its prior ruling and grant Mr. Bloch’s Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea.”
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