The judge in the case ruled against him, saying the argument that the president is above the law was “repugnant” to American values. The ruling raises the possibility that McGahn could be forced to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of Washington found no basis for a White House claim that the former counsel is “absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony,” setting the stage for a historic separation-of-powers confrontation between the executive and legislative ­branches of the ­government. In other words, Trump officials may be happy to lose in court, so long as doing so eats up the clock. McGahn testified to Mueller about how Trump ordered him to fire Mueller, and he resisted.

Source: Washington Post November 26, 2019 18:34 UTC