Inside the Trump legal team trying to stop impeachment before it starts
Yet here’s what they have: At least 30 White House and Justice Department attorneys who have worked on related issues. Several personal lawyers for the president dealing with the subject. A lurking presence at Capitol Hill impeachment-focused hearings. Aggressive legal briefs and countersuits foiling efforts to gather fuel for potential proceedings. Near-daily media appearances discussing the topic.
DOJ lawyers are also slated to appear at a separate hearing on Halloween challenging Democrats’ attempts to enforce a subpoena for McGahn’s testimony.William Consovoy, a Northern Virginia-based former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has taken a lead role in several lawsuits to protect the release of the president’s tax returns. Consovoy has one case challenging House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal’s attempts to secure the documents.
Trump’s lawyers aren’t just filing court papers, writing letters to Congress and throttling their opponents in public. They’re also showing up on Capitol Hill. Several Democrats even see the Trump team’s efforts to guide and influence congressional witnesses as an attempt to stymie Congress’s legitimate oversight authorities.
During Hicks’ closed-door deposition in June, Nadler opened by saying DOJ attorneys — in this case Gannon — aren’t normally allowed to sit in for an interview when the employee didn’t work for the department. “It's a daunting exercise, but let me begin with the simple but powerful truth that nothing in this overkill of investigation amounts to a justification for the impeachment of the president of the United States,” Kendall told the lawmakers as he opened a 30-minute exchange with the president’s chief nemesis.
President Andrew Johnson, who was impeached but not convicted over his handling of Reconstruction, survived in office with the backing of a team of lawyers that included former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis and Henry Stanbery, who resigned as attorney general to defend Johnson.
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