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White House Letter to Congress on Impeachment Inquiry

Quinta Jurecic
Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 5:23 PM

White House counsel Pat Cipollone has sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and various committee chairmen indicating that the president "cannot participate" in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The letter is available here and below.

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White House counsel Pat Cipollone has sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and various committee chairmen indicating that the president "cannot participate" in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The letter is available here and below.


Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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