Ruling Will Not Lead Bolton to Testify Soon, Lawyer Says
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser to President Trump who resisted efforts to pressure Ukraine for help against domestic political rivals, dashed any expectation on Tuesday that he would testify soon in the House impeachment investigation in response to a court ruling involving a onetime colleague.
Charles J. Cooper, a lawyer who represents Mr. Bolton, said that a court decision on Monday ordering another former White House official to appear before Congress under subpoena did not apply to Mr. Bolton because of the nature of his job. Mr. Cooper said Mr. Bolton would therefore wait for another judge to rule in a separate case that could take weeks more to litigate. The statement came a day after a federal district judge rejected the notion that Mr. Trump could block aides from responding to congressional subpoenas based on a sweeping claim of presidential immunity. The ruling ordered Donald F. McGahn II, a former White House counsel for Mr. Trump, to comply with a House subpoena.
While the judge said it made no difference whether a White House official dealt with national security matters, Mr. Cooper rejected the notion that it would cover Mr. Bolton. Any passing references in the McGahn decision to presidential communications concerning national security matters are not authoritative on the validity of testimonial immunity for close White House advisers whose responsibilities are focused exclusively on providing information and advice to the president on national security, Mr. Cooper said.
Democrats have not been counting on Mr. Boltons testimony and have signaled that they intend to press ahead with the impeachment inquiry without waiting for court cases about testimony from White House aides to be resolved. Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Monday that he expected his panel to deliver a report soon after Thanksgiving making the case for impeaching Mr. Trump.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/politics/bolton-testimony.html
Not completely unexpected. He's got to do the timing right for that book!
Raster
(20,998 posts)...is just another GOP* poser who cares more about his checking account than he does the Constitution or our country.
Noted. Asshole.
bunny planet
(10,875 posts)I'd like to see Sean claim executive privilege.....however, supposedly according to new documents revealed in FOIA requests, Pompeo spoke to Hannity for advice on the Ukraine affair more than once, about firing Ambassador Y and today I'm reading Hannity announced he has information that reports about Nunes speaking to corrupt prosecutors in Ukraine to get dirt on Biden are false.....so, come on with it Sean, we'd like to see you testify under oath about both those things.
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)....on his BOOK.
That is all.
He is after all a Republican. All about himself and his party. Nothing else.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,273 posts)nt