A federal judge on Monday ruled that former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with a subpoena and testify to Congress, delivering a significant win to House Democrats amid their impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, an Obama appointee, means that McGahn is obligated to comply with a House Judiciary Committee subpoena from April seeking to compel his testimony.
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> WASHINGTON, Sept 2 - President Joe Biden on Thursday said he is launching a "Whole-of-government effort," including from the White House counsel, to combat a strict new Texas abortion law after an overnight Supreme Court decision let it stand.
> The president said in a statement he was directing the office of the White House counsel and his Gender Policy Council to review how the government could "Ensure that women in Texas have access to safe and legal abortions... and what legal tools we have to insulate women and providers from the impact of Texas' bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement to private parties."
> The White House will specifically look at what measures can be taken through the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice, Biden said.
> The White House has called for the "Codification" of abortion rights that are currently protected by the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision through legislation in Congress, but has not outlined any specific steps that it is taking to back any such law.
> Biden's Democrats have control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives with slim majorities and he is seeking to push through legislation on infrastructure and other Democratic priorities in the coming weeks.
> The House will debate and vote on legislation stopping states from enacting restrictive anti-abortion regulations like the one just approved by Texas, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn and his wife received disclosures from Apple last month that their account records were sought by the Justice Department in February 2018, while McGahn was still the top lawyer representing the presidency, according to a person familiar.
The New York Times first reported McGahn's situation on Sunday.
The pursuit was under a nondisclosure order until May, indicating the Justice Department went to a judge multiple times to keep it secret throughout former President Donald Trump's years in office. It is extraordinary to subpoena a White House counsel's records.
The Justice Department appears to have accessed McGahn and his wife's information the same month the department swept up Apple's data related to dozens of phone numbers and email accounts connected to the House Intelligence Committee, including for two of its Democratic members. The DOJ's move also happened a few weeks after Trump became unhappy with McGahn as he tried to pressure McGahn to cover up his request to fire then-special counsel Robert Mueller, a pivotal move of Trump's that added fuel to Mueller's investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice. The subpoena for McGahn's records did not come from Mueller's team of investigators, the source added.
There's no indication at this time whether the pursuit of McGahn's records was politically motivated, or what possible case investigators were pursuing. Thursday's revelations about prosecutors seeking records for members of the House Intelligence Committee have led top congressional Democrats to call on former Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to testify on the matter.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday demanded Senate Republicans join Democrats to subpoena Barr and Sessions, as well as John Demers, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's national security division. Key Republicans have mostly issued statements focusing on the potential leaks DOJ was investigating rather than the methods, and withheld judgment on whether the department was following the rules.
Sessions -- the attorney general at the time of the Apple subpoena -- was recused from all matters related to the Russia probe so a related leak investigation would have fallen under then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, CNN has reported. Rosenstein has told people in recent days he was not aware of the subpoena that targeted the data of Democratic members of Congress while
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