A host of court actions center on constitutional powers of the executive and legislative branches.
By Fred Barbash Fred Barbash Law, constitution and courts Email Bio Follow May 9 at 3:34 PM The White House is challenging the core powers of Congress across a host of issues, from the power of the purse in the border wall controversy, to refusing to turn over the president’s tax returns, to invoking executive privilege so lawmakers can’t read the unredacted version of the Mueller report.
On Tuesday, the president invoked executive privilege to prevent former White House counsel Donald McGahn from complying with a subpoena for documents and did so again Wednesday, in the face of a subpoena to Attorney General William P. Barr for the full report by Robert S. Mueller III and the underlying evidence the special counsel gathered.
And two House committees, Financial Services and Intelligence, are seeking to intervene in the lawsuit filed by President Trump, his children and the Trump organization to quash subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp. Today, real checks and balances only seem to come into play when government is completely divided, with one party in control of both houses of Congress and another occupying the White House.
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