Remember when Nancy "deemed and schemed" ObamaCare out of the House and into the Senate by "deeming' it was fully vetted and passed?
She is using the same play book for impeachment. Because she "deemed" that impeachment started, just like magic, it started! The royal "we" rules the day.
Article 2, Clause 5: The House of Representatives .... shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
This means action by the WHOLE House by a vote, not by decrees from Queen Nancy, Princess Omar, Princess 'MFer' Tlaib, Princess Ocasio-Cortez, Grand Inquisitor Nadler, or Torquemada Schiff.
The Constitution does not provide for secret grand jury methods as an on-ramp for impeachment. Trump needs to sue for his Constitutionally guaranteed rights. The Constitution holds that the House - the while House - has the sole power to impeach. Not the Speaker of the House, not a BS committee chairman in the House, and not any single member of the House - but the House collectively. That means a VOTE in the whole House.
The House can have all the phony baloney rules it wants. The President/Executive, then, as an independent branch, should have its own rules about not cooperating with fake impeachment until the entire House votes to go for an impeachment inquiry as has been the tradition since the beginning.
Why doesn’t a loyal h of r republican seek out a sympathetic judge to have them issue an injunction against the House of Representatives for having secret meetings regarding accusations against the president and force this phony constitutional crisis into the Supreme Court.