The former head of the legal Department of the White house, Don McGahn, has to make a summons of a Committee of the house of representatives and in the Parliament statements. He could not rely on the immunity of high government employees, or reasons of national security, said the Federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday.
It is not in the Power of the President to free one of his employees to obey such a subpoena of Congress, a result.
no one is above the law, said the judge. What information the employee must give the Congress actually the price, but I shall be regulated, in part, on other provisions. The Ministry of justice wanted to insert the U.S.-according to media reports, an appeal against the decision of the judge.
McGahn had download Mueller already answer
The judiciary Committee McGahn in the framework of the investigations on the possible influence of the US elections by Russia advanced. McGahn had been special investigator Robert Mueller will have to answer the government wanted to prevent him from making a statement in Parliament. The Chairman of the Committee, Jerry Nadler welcomed the decision and said that McGahn was a “Central witness” in the case of the clarification of the question of whether Trump had hindered the investigation, Mueller’s.
The legal dispute is now even more important, because several current and former employees of the White house refuse, in the framework of the investigations for a possible impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in front of the Parliament to testify. For this purpose, the former Deputy National security Advisor Charles Kupperman, for example. This has applied in a separate procedure, to a court, to clarify whether he has to testify before the Parliament or whether he must comply with trump’s arrangement to block the investigation.
the next step in the process
the next step in The impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump should be done according to the will of the Democrats after the weekend. The Chairman of the intelligence Committee in the house of representatives, Adam Schiff announced on Monday. The report of the Committee should be handed over after the session break for the Thanksgiving holiday to the judicial Committee of the Congress chamber. This is a requirement for a statement of the formal charges against the President (articles of impeachment). So far, strong evidence had been collected, said ship. The investigations continued.
it Should accept the from the Democrats controlled the house of representatives, the prosecution points to decide, the Senate, as the second Congress chamber about the actual impeachment. There Trumps the Republicans have the majority. In the centre of the procedure, the Ukraine affair is. Trump has rejected all the allegations. (chk/sda)
Created: 26.11.2019, 02:32 PM
