House Democrats are hoping comments made by Trump's lawyers could spur a win in a pending case that could open a spigot of new information in their bid to remove the president
, House Counsel Douglas Letter wrote, runs counter to one of the central arguments the Justice Department has made that federal judges should not get involved in disputes between Congress and the executive branch.“President Trump’s arguments in the impeachment trial contradict DOJ’s assertion in this case that the Committee may not seek to enforce its subpoenas in court,” Letter said.
Democrats approved a subpoena for McGahn last spring, but Justice Department lawyers blocked his compliance, prompting a drawn-out court fight that culminated in November with afrom a federal judge in favor of the House. The department appealed the case to the D.C. Circuit, arguing both that McGahn and other government officials enjoy absolute immunity from testifying and also that the courts shouldn’t meddle in these kinds of disputes.
Against that backdrop and with the McGahn case still pending, House lawyers seized on remarks Sekulow made on Tuesday during the impeachment trial that appeared to undercut the Justice Department’s claims in court. On the Senate floor, Sekulow said, “The president’s opponents, in their rush to impeach, have refused to wait for judicial review.
In that letter, they informed the court about the start of the Senate impeachment trial this week and urged it to rule “expeditiously” on whether impeachment investigators can see all of the blacked-out words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs and entire pages in the version of the“It is difficult to conceive of a public interest more substantial than ensuring that the House obtains highly pertinent evidence to present to the Senate as it considers whether the President should be removed from...
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