Perspective | Congress will defeat Trump in court. But Trump has the clock on his side.

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Perspective: Congress will defeat Trump in court. But Trump has the clock on his side.

Former White House counsel Donald McGahn listens during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. By Irvin B. Nathan Irvin B. Nathan was General Counsel of the House from 2007 to 2010, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi. May 30 at 6:00 AM The clash between Congress and the Trump administration is moving into a crucial new phase.

The administration will try to delay the proceedings so the information comes out after November 2020, past the time when the House can effectively use it, past when Americans deciding whom to support in the presidential election need it. But if a federal court, after civil litigation, orders the enforcement of a subpoena, further resistance can be punished by incarceration by the U.S. marshal — a dramatic act, to be sure, but one the American people may be reassured has judicial approval.

The fight between the Republican-controlled House and the Obama Department of Justice over documents related to the “Fast and Furious” investigation — an undercover operation that went awry and led to the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent — made even clearer the problem with judicial delays. The courts agree: Congressional oversight and investigation of the executive branch is essential to our system of checks and balances. That was the message once again when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta last week rejected the White House’s attempt to block the House from subpoenaing Trump’s accountants, to obtain financial records, and also when, that same week, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos did the same for Deutsche Bank and Capitol One.

 

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Admit it .No Government control of the senile clown

Huh. I see it as, even if we don’t get Dotard out of office before the election, after he leaves office he is fair game across the board.

Wrong again, Dorothy is not visiting from Oz. The Democrats are dead.

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