A federal judge in Washington expressed disbelief that the White House could control what its former officials might talk about, when they're subpoenaed by the House of Representatives or otherwise
"We don't live in a world where your status as a former executive branch official somehow shields you or prevents you from giving information," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday during a nearly four-hour hearing to a Justice Department attorney who was defending the White House.The lawsuit is over whether former White House counsel Don McGahn must appear for testimony in the House.
Doug Letter, the House of Representatives' top lawyer, reacted to the Justice Department arguments, saying"This is what they wish the law were. It is not what the law is.""Apparently, the Trump administration wishes this were different," Letter said."They would like a different Constitution than the one we have.
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