With headlines changing every minute, it’s worth reflecting on just how damaging Friday’s DC Circuit ruling really is: If it stands (and it shouldn’t), given the admin’s bad faith & blanket defiance of subpoenas, it will effectively mark the end of Congressional oversight.
During impeachment, Trump’s lawyers repeatedly said Congress needs to “go to the courts to enforce a subpoena.” Now a divided court, in a flawed opinion, refused to resolve whether Congress can enforce its subpoenas, handing Trump a king’s power to silence those in his admin.
I hope and expect the full DC Circuit en banc to rehear this case and reverse it. A founding principle of this country is that no one is above the law. Never has that principle been so tested as it is today.
