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 | | Subject: House: Arrest “Current and Former High-Level” Officials to answer to its subpoenas. Fri Mar 06, 2020 3:50 pm | |
| 03/06/2020
Judiciary Committee says McGahn ruling leaves only extreme options — such as arrests — to get White House info
House lawyers say the alternatives to judicial review of congressional subpoenas would be a menu of unpalatable options.
House lawyers argued Friday that an appeals court ruling blocking lawmakers from suing to obtain information from the executive branch would leave Congress with little choice but to exercise extreme options —
such as arresting “current and former high-level” officials to get answers to its subpoenas.
“The House could direct its sergeant at arms to arrest current and former high-level executive branch officials for failing to respond to subpoenas, after which the legal issues dividing the branches would then be litigated through habeas actions,” House lawyers wrote in a filing seeking a rehearing of the matter by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “But arrest and detention should not be a prerequisite to obtaining judicial resolution of the enforceability of a congressional subpoena.”
The filing comes a week after an appeals court panel ruled 2-1 that the House may not ask judges to force the White House to make former counsel Don McGahn available for testimony.
The panel determined that courts have no place intervening in disputes between Congress and the executive branch, a ruling that would remake the balance of power between the two branches of government if it stands.
In its earlier arguments, the House said it needed McGahn’s testimony as part of its impeachment push against Trump, noting that McGahn could speak to a “pattern” of obstructive behavior by the president.
Letter even indicated the House could seek McGahn’s testimony during the impeachment trial in order to garner new evidence.
Letter’s latest filing acknowledges the end of the impeachment trial last month, which resulted in a near-party-line acquittal on charges that Trump abused his power and obstructed congressional investigations.
But the House counsel indicates that the House still wants McGahn’s testimony in order to consider potential legislation governing the president’s relationship with the Justice Department.
He also says impeachment could be back on the table if McGahn’s testimony reveals evidence of criminal obstruction of justice or other potential high crimes.
“The Committee would have to consider whether to recommend new articles of impeachment,” he wrote.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/don-mcghan-testimony-ruling-122808 |
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| | Subject: Re: House: Arrest “Current and Former High-Level” Officials to answer to its subpoenas. Fri Mar 06, 2020 3:53 pm | |
| How do the Dems ever expect any of their "legislation" to pass when they waste all their time with this sorta crap?? |
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