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Trump Impeachment Trials: Mcgahn Supboena And Congressional Oversight, Rebecca Darin Goldberg

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

A panel of three D.C. Circuit judges rejected the House Judiciary Committee’s request for testimony from Don McGahn, former White House Counsel, finding that the Committee lacked Article III standing to enforce a congressional subpoena in federal court. Framing the issue as one of separation of powers, the court declined to intervene in what it described as a purely political dispute between the executive and legislative branches. The ruling was a significant setback for the House in their efforts to force the Trump administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas and to yield to Congressional oversight more generally. Interestingly, in March, …