“In the days ahead, the committee will evaluate next steps in the litigation and regarding the former president’s noncompliance,” Thompson and Cheney wrote.
lawsuit
against the House committee contends that “no president or former president has ever been compelled” to provide testimony or documents in response to congressional subpoenas in the past. “Long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a President to testify before it,” Trump attorney David A. Warringtonextended the deadline
for the former president to produce documents related to the Capitol riot, noting that Trump and his legal team have been in contact with the panel since it issued a subpoena for documents and the former president’s testimony in October. The panel of seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans issued the subpoena to Trump on Oct. 21, ordering him to produce all “relevant documentary material” related to the Jan. 6 capitol riot and to participate in “one or more days of deposition testimony.
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