Federal judge orders former White House counsel Donald McGahn to appear before Congress in a setback to US President Donald Trump’s effort to keep his top aides from testifying
Don McGahn, the current White House counsel, leaves a meeting with US Senator Claire McCaskill at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington on August 21, 2018.
Not even the Republican president’s closest aides who receive subpoenas from Congress can “ignore or defy congressional compulsory process, by order of the President or otherwise”, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote on Monday in ruling on a lawsuit filed by the House Judiciary Committee. The Justice Department will seek to put the ruling on hold in the meantime, department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a statement calling Jackson’s decision “yet another resounding ruling that the Administration’s claim of ‘absolute immunity’ from Congress’s subpoenas has no basis in the law or our democracy, and must immediately cease.”But such immunity “simply does not exist,” Jackson wrote in a 118-page ruling.
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