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Anonymous ID: 256205 May 20, 2019, 1:03 p.m. No.6544599   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4721 >>4837 >>4919

DOJ To Nadler: ‘Congress may not constitutionally compel the President’s senior advisors testify’

By

Sara Carter -

May 20, 2019

 

The Department of Justice issued a memorandum to President Donald Trump’s legal counsel Monday stating that “Congress may not constitutionally compel the President’s senior advisors to testify about their official duties.”

 

The memorandum was in direct response to current Trump counsel Pat Cipollone’s question as to whether Trump’s former White House Counsel Don McGahn is legally required to appear before the committee to testify. The House Judiciary Committee subpoenas McGahn to testify specifically about matters regarding Special Counsel Robert Muller’s report.

 

The DOJ’s eight page memorandum, written by Assistant Attorney General Steve Engel, clearly argues the separation of powers and states that “Congress could not lawfully exercise any inherent contempt authority against Mr. McGahn for asserting immunity. The constitutional separation of powers bars Congress from exercising its inherent contempt power in the face of a presidential assertion of executive privilege.

 

https://saraacarter.com/doj-to-nadler-congress-may-not-constitutionally-compel-the-presidents-senior-advisors-testify/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

Anonymous ID: 256205 May 20, 2019, 1:16 p.m. No.6544706   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4721 >>4732 >>4837 >>4919

Nunes “Likely” to Send Another Criminal Referral Over Steele Meeting with State Dept

 

Ranking House Intelligence Committee member Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) said it was “likely” he would send another criminal referral to the Department of Justice relating to a meeting between the State Department and anti-Trump dossier author, Christopher Steele.

 

Speaking to Fox News yesterday, the Washington Examiner reports that Nunes said notes from State Department official Kathleen Kavalec about her October 2016 meeting with Steele were withheld from the House Intelligence Committee during its investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election.

 

“It’s likely now, as we do our investigation as to why we didn’t get this information that we’ve just been discussing from the State Department two years ago when we should have received it, there could be another referral coming on obstruction a congressional investigation,” he said.

 

https://bongino.com/nunes-likely-to-send-another-criminal-referral-over-steele-meeting-with-state-dept/