Along with Trump’s pattern of operating?
This is gonna be staled by being appealed…
A federal judge ruled Monday that former White House counsel Don McGahn must testify under subpoena in the ongoing House impeachment inquiry, rejecting the White House’s assertion that its aides are “absolutely immune” from congressional subpoenas. The Justice Department will appeal the ruling.
“When DOJ insists that Presidents can lawfully prevent their senior-level aides from responding to compelled congressional process and that neither the federal courts nor Congress has the power to do anything about it, DOJ promotes a conception of separation-of-powers principles that gets these constitutional commands exactly backwards. In reality, it is a core tenet of this Nation’s founding that the powers of a monarch must be split between the branches of the government to prevent tyranny.”
— Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson