White House tells House Judiciary Cmte. that it will not comply with broad range of panel's requests and calls on it to 'discontinue' its inquiry into President Trump.
The White House told the House Judiciary Committee in a letter Wednesday that it will not comply with a broad range of the panel's requests and called on it to"discontinue" its inquiry into President Donald Trump.
"The appropriate course is for the Committee to discontinue the inquiry," Cipollone wrote to the panel's chairman, Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y."Unfortunately, it appears that you have already decided to press ahead with a duplicative investigation, including by issuing subpoenas, to replow the same ground the Special Counsel has already covered."connected to the president as part of a broad investigation into whether Trump abused his power or acted corruptly.
“I don't know whether they're trying to taunt us towards an impeachment or anything else," Nadler added."All I know is that they have made a preposterous claim." "The only purpose for this duplication seems to be harassing and seeking to embarrass political opponents after an exhaustive two-year investigation by the Department of Justice did not reach the conclusion that some members of the Committee apparently would have preferred," he continued."That, of course, is not a permissible purpose for demanding confidential information from the Executive.
Despite that broad interpretation of legislative purpose,"its scope is not without limits," the agency added."Courts have held that a committee lacks legislative purpose if it appears to be conducting a legislative trial rather than an investigation to assist in performing its legislative function." Amit Mehta, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, told Trump lawyer William Consovoy that he would have trouble ruling that Congress did not have the constitutional authority to obtain Trump's taxes due to a lack of explicit legislative purpose because of prior Supreme Court rulings.
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