Posted on 10/28/2019 4:47:51 PM PDT by ransomnote
WASHINGTON — House Democrats will forgo using the federal courts to try to compel testimony from recalcitrant witnesses in their impeachment inquiry, a top Democratic chairman said Monday, warning that lawmakers would instead use the lack of cooperation to bolster their case that President Trump has abused his office and obstructed Congress’s investigation.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, confirmed the shift in strategy after Charles M. Kupperman, the former deputy national security adviser and one of Mr. Trump’s “closest confidential” advisers, defied a House subpoena for testimony that had been scheduled for Monday morning.
The White House on Friday said that Mr. Kupperman was absolutely immune from testifying and directed him not to appear in defiance of a subpoena. That prompted the former official to file a lawsuit against Mr. Trump and congressional Democrats asking a federal judge whether he could testify, raising the prospect of a drawn-out legal battle over weighty questions about the separation of powers that could effectively stall the impeachment inquiry for months.
“We are not willing to let the White House engage us in a lengthy game of rope-a-dope in the courts, so we press ahead,” Mr. Schiff told reporters outside his secure hearing rooms.
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The MSM is choosing to spin it to win it (for the deep state).
It’s not the main stream media (MSM) . It is and has been for years the Democrat Party Media
No matter what the Pelosi Dem leftists do, President Trump still can use executive privilege to deny Shiff’s kangaroo court documents and staff testimony.
What Schiff and Pelosi are up to is the drafting of a Bill of Attainder, in relation to President Trump, NOT letters of impeachment. Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article one of the Constitution.
President Trump also has that argument on his shelf, yet unused. Soon we likely will hear of it. Shifty King Shiff! LOL.
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