Dissent Excoriates McGahn Decision For Assuring 'Future Presidential Stonewalling'
By Josh Kovensky
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February 28, 2020 6:09 p.m.
The Friday appeals court decision not to enforce a House subpoena of former White House counsel Don McGahn eviscerates congressional power and all but ensures “future Presidential stonewalling,” appellate judge Judith W. Rogers wrote in a blistering dissent.
Rogers’ dissent came as two of her fellow judges on a D.C. appeals panel ruled to allow McGahn to defy a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee for his testimony regarding President Trump’s obstruction of the Mueller investigation.
House attorneys had argued that the obstruction to which McGahn bore witness could constitute an impeachable offense — a point Rogers hit upon multiple times in her dissent.
“In the context of impeachment, when the accuracy and thoroughness of the investigation may well determine whether the President remains in office, the House’s need for information is at its zenith,” she wrote.
Rogers addressed the origin of the subpoena: the Mueller investigation.
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This is why we need to get out and vote and get a democrat in the white house and control the senate..................
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this will go right to the supreme court.....................this basically eviscerates the Congressional powers................in a lot things.......................my civic classes are just going out the window................................
