The filing of the suit is the latest step in a fight between Congress and the White House, which is asserting executive privilege to prevent Miers and Bolten from testifying.

Republicans rejected the lawsuit.

“I have said it before and I will say it again: We have spent millions of dollars on lawyers, poured over thousands of pages of documents, and listened to dozens of witnesses and uncovered nothing that would warrant this extreme political maneuvering,” said Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah). “I hoped this would eventually sink in but instead it is creating an environment whereby the Majority wants to subpoena anything and everything.”

Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called the lawsuit a “political stunt” that is a “complete waste of time.”

“The American people sent us here to get things done on their behalf,” he said. “We’ve already shown this year, with passage of the economic growth package, that we can get things done when the majority reaches out and works with Republicans.”

Pointing to the need to pass an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Steel added that it is “unfortunate” that Democrats have not “demonstrated the same spirit of bipartisanship when it comes to our national security.

“The terrorist threat to our country is not going away, and this sort of pandering to the left-wing fever swamps of loony liberal activists does nothing to make America safer,” Steel said.