WASHINGTON ― With calls for impeachment growing in the House Democratic Caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may finally have to escalate the standoff between Congress and the White House. Such a move wouldn’t necessarily guarantee a vote in the House for impeachment, let alone an almost certainly doomed vote in the Senate. What an impeachment inquiry would do, however, is temporarily satiate those voices in the caucus calling for Trump’s removal. On Tuesday, former White House counsel Don McGahn declined to comply with a House Judiciary Committee subpoena to testify. But the White House has claimed executive privilege over McGahn’s testimony.

Source: Huffington Post May 21, 2019 17:19 UTC