House Democrats issued a subpoena to the White House for documents related to Ukraine, ratcheting up the Democratic impeachment inquiry into President Trump
The subpoena came after the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry separately sent a letter Friday seeking documents from Vice President Mike Pence as part of their investigation into Trump and his conversation with the President of Ukraine.
House Democrats have set an aggressive schedule of depositions to go along with their document requests as they have prepared to potentially file articles of impeachment related to Ukraine, putting the other matters they were investigating involving the President -- from Russian election interference to the Emoluments clause of the Constitution -- to the side.The vice president's spokesman said that the Democrats letter"does not appear to be a serious request.
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