The former U.S. attorney general and ex-Alabama senator cited precedent that courts can't compel cabinet officials to testify, among other arguments.
Jeff Sessions is asking a federal judge to quash a subpoena requesting he provide testimony in the case of three Central American families who claim they were harmed by the Trump administration’sSessions, a former U.S. senator from Alabama who was U.S. attorney general at the time the policy was implemented, cited precedent that courts can’t compel presidential cabinet officials to testify, according to his motion to quash the subpoena in federal court in Mobile.
The three families said they fled violence in Central America and sought asylum in the United States in 2018. While Sessions is asking the court that he not be compelled to testify, the families wanted Sessions’ motion to be decided by a judge in California, not Mobile. “To permit this deposition to proceed would ignore Supreme Court precedent that has categorically prohibited, as a matter of the constitutional separation of powers, the federal courts from compelling the testimony of a member of the President’s Cabinet in order to probe his or her subjective intentions and mental processes in official decision-making,” he wrote.
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