A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post. Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege: … Read more
President Trump on Monday directed his former White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II – now a private citizen – to defy a congressional subpoena and skip a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, denying House Democrats testimony from the most important eyewitnesses to Mr. Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice in the Russia investigation. Trump Instructs McGahn … Read more
The Arizona Republic this week reported that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to meet with Attorney General William Barr, but won’t say why or when. My first thought was good, maybe the two of them could sit down and actually read the Mueller Report together, since neither one of them has publicly attested to having read the … Read more
Richard Nixon was going to be impeached for the very same misconduct Donald Trump is engaged in now, before he resigned. Article 3 of Nixon’s Articles of Impeachment was for “obstruction of Congress,” i.e, his failure to comply with the lawful subpoenas from Congress. The latest on the Trump administration’s “total obstruction” of Congress: House Judiciary … Read more
Prosecutors have unsealed new details in the case involving former national security adviser Michael Flynn, revealing that he provided information to special counsel Robert Mueller relevant to his obstruction inquiry. The documents include an addendum to the government’s sentencing memorandum, a memo recording an unidentified individual’s communications with Flynn in January 2017, and an interview by … Read more