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The Whistleblower Should Not Have to Testify
The House and Senate Intelligence Committees are both contemplating testimony from the intelligence community officer who first brought to light President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr ... -
New Impeachment Poll: Quid Pro Quo Trouble Ahead
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney made a stunning admission of a quid pro quo by confirming that President Donald Trump -
Clarifying the Scope of the Legal Profession’s Ethical Responsibilities: A Response to John Bies
John Bies’s Sept. 30 post (“Giuliani Cannot Rely on Attorney-Client Privilege to Avoid Congressional Testimony”) is informative but doesn’t quite explain the full scope of a lawyer’s confidentiality resp... -
Gordon Sondland Appears Before House Impeachment Inquiry
Gordon D. Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, will appear on Thursday before House impeachment investigators from the Committees on Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence. His ope... -
The Role of OMB in Withholding Ukrainian Aid
One of the most damning allegations in the whistleblower complaint is that President Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son by w... -
White House Sought to Restrict Fiona Hill Deposition
The deputy counsel to President Trump responded to a letter from counsel for Fiona Hill, the former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs for the National Security Council. The White House let... -
How Should the House Handle Impeachment?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is approaching a fork in the road on the House’s impeachment inquiry. The White House has indicated an unwillingness to cooperate with the inquiry, and so the House has to deci... -
The Cipollone Letter: Trouble in the White House Counsel’s Office
The aggressive letter from the White House counsel to Congress, announcing that the president will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, is further evidence of the deterioration of norms in the con... -
Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s Opening Statement Before Congress
Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch delivered her opening statement in closed-door testimony before the House Committees on Oversight and Reform, Foreign Affairs and Intelligence. In the st... -
House Committees Subpoena Energy Secretary Rick Perry for Documents
The chairmen of the House Committees on Oversight and Reform, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs sent a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry compelling him to produce documents for the impeachment inquiry... -
House Committees Subpoena Documents from Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman
The chairmen of three House Committees—Oversight and Reform, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs—sent a letter to John Dowd to compel his clients, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, to produce documents as part of... -
Giuliani Associates Indicted on Campaign Finance Charges
Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin have been indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York on campaign finance charges. Parnas and Fruman have been reported to ha...
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