The White House Is Deliberately Creating a Constitutional Crisis
The White House on Tuesday directed former White House Counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents related to the various potentially criminal shenanigans described by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his report to the Justice Department.
Arguing in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler that the documents requested “implicate significant Executive Branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege,” current White House Counsel Pat Cipollone claimed that his predecessor doesn’t have the legal right to turn over the material, and that Democrats should “direct any request for such records to the White House, the appropriate legal custodian.” Cipollone sent a similar letter to McGahn’s lawyer, instructing him to not allow his client to comply with the congressional subpoena.