Endless Impeachment: House Lawyers Hope for New Articles Should Don McGahn Testify

Dec. 24, 2019 (EIRNS)—Clearly the plan is to have a never-ending impeachment. Yesterday, lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee filed papers in the D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, urging it to compel former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify, according to NBC News and CBS News.

The lawyers’ filing argued that if McGahn’s testimony provides new evidence supporting the claim that President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses—not covered by the two Articles of Impeachment—“the committee will proceed accordingly, including, if necessary, by considering whether to recommend new articles of impeachment.” The Justice Department also filed yesterday arguing that the appeals court should “decline the committee’s request that it enter the fray and instead should dismiss this fraught suit between the political branches.”

The Judiciary Committee lawyers insist that McGahn’s testimony is key. Robert Mueller’s team had interviewed him for 30 hours and Democrats are certain he can provide evidence of several instances of Trump attempting undermine Mueller’s investigation—obstruction of justice. Mueller’s report, of course, found no way to make the obstruction of justice charge stick.

CNN reports House lawyers’ assertion that “The Committee’s investigations did not cease with the House’s recent impeachment vote.... Understanding President Trump’s history of obstruction would be important to the House’s presentation of the evidence and the Senate’s consideration of the second Article of Impeachment,” obstruction of Congress. The White House had prohibited McGahn from testifying, claiming he had full immunity, but a D.C. federal court overruled that in November. Now the case is scheduled for argument before the appeals court Jan. 3.