Former White House counsel Don McGahn is appealing Monday night's ruling that he must testify to House impeachment investigators.
McGahn and the Justice Department also asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to order that he not be forced to testify while the appeal plays out.The moves, coming 14 hours after Jackson's decisive decision in favor of House Democrats, show that the Trump administration will fight aggressively to hold off McGahn's testimony -- and potentially others' whom they are blocking from the impeachment inquiry.
Jackson's searing 120-page opinion Monday said McGahn must testify and disagreed with the executive branch's legal claims of current and former officials having"absolute immunity."Even if Jackson refuses, the House has agreed to give the administration a seven-day delay so it appeal the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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