BREAKING: Appeals Court tosses subpoena for former Trump White House lawyer McGahn. The court said Congress has never given individual committees the legal power to file lawsuits like the one against McGahn.
, a victory for the Trump administration in its continuing fight with Congress over access to current and former administration officials.
By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia tossed out a lawsuit brought by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee after Don McGahn refused to testify about how the White House responded to the Mueller investigation. House Judiciary Democrats said they wanted McGahn to testify about actions by Trump that former special counsel Robert Mueller's report said could constitute obstruction of justice. After McGahn declined to respond to a voluntary request for documents, the committee issued a subpoena, describing him as"the most important witness, other than the President, to the key events that are the focus of the Judiciary Committee's investigation.
The appeals court said Congress has never given individual committees the legal power to file lawsuits like the one against McGahn. "We note that this decision does not preclude Congress from ever enforcing a subpoena in federal court," the ruling said."It simply precludes it from doing so without first enacting a statute authorizing such a suit."Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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