Posted on 05/15/2019 11:01:36 AM PDT by Innovative
he White House’s top lawyer told the House Judiciary Committee chairman Wednesday that Congress has no right to a “do-over” of the special counsel’s investigation of President Trump and refused a broad demand for records and testimony from dozens of current and former White House staff.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone’s letter to committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) constitutes a sweeping rejection — not just of Nadler’s request for White House records, but of Congress’s standing to investigate Trump for possible obstruction of justice. In his letter, Cipollone repeated a claim the White House and Trump’s business have begun making: that Congress is not a law enforcement body and does not have a legitimate purpose to investigate the questions it is pursuing.
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T'would seem elementary, my dear Watson....... except to braindead power-mad Democrats.
They would annihilate anyone standing in their way to absolute power.
They do have a right to examine witnesses and investigate. But they don’t have a right to the fruits of the Mueller investigation. That belongs to Barr’s Justice Department. And whatever they do demand of the White House or Justice is subject to executive privilege, national security, and other claims.
waiting for the JD to send a pack of comfort dogs to the House. Or, since they’re all catty, a pride of comfort kittens.
I agree. And he never defended himself which made him look guilty all the time.
Good point.
He was never critical of Obama but didn’t hesitate to speak out against Trump.
Dems rule is to just keep doing over anything they don’t like until they get the results they want, then they stop.</i>
I like his name already.
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