Two partially overlapping, 3-judge panels will hold back-to-back hearings this morning focused on the House Judiciary Committee’s months-long quests to see Robert Mueller’s secrets and secure testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn
The new year starts with one of the biggest court dates in recent memory: oral arguments in a pair of intertwining cases that will define Donald Trump’s presidency and the Democrats’ efforts to remove him from office.
In court briefs filed late last month, the Democrats pleaded for the chance to uncover incriminating material against Trump that could strengthen their hand during a Senate impeachment trial. “For example, if McGahn confirms to the committee that the president ordered him to fire Special Counsel Mueller—an event that President Trump has publicly disputed— and then tried to cover it up, that testimony would constitute powerful evidence of the pattern of obstructive behavior described in the second article,” House Counsel Douglas Letter said in a, referring to the second charge against Trump that he stymied their Ukraine probe by ordering potential witnesses not to cooperate with the...
“The now very real possibility of this Court appearing to weigh in on an article of impeachment at a time when political tensions are at their highest levels — before, during, or after a Senate trial regarding the removal of a President — puts in stark relief why this sort of interbranch dispute is not one that has ‘traditionally thought to be capable of resolution through the judicial process,’” DOJ’s lawyers wrote last month in a legalIn arguing against the release of Mueller’s grand jury...
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