Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama, joined ABC’s 'Powerhouse Politics' podcast, predicting that President Donald Trump's aggressive use of executive privilege will ultimately lead the courts to significantly limit those powers. 'You know, what
Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama, joined ABC’s"Powerhouse Politics" podcast, predicting that President Donald Trump's aggressive use of executive privilege will ultimately lead the courts to significantly limit those powers.
"And here, now, you've got a president that claims executive privilege like he's dispensing candy," he said."It's just left and right."On Monday, a federal judge ruled that former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena to testify. On the same day, the Supreme Court granted Trump’s request for an emergency stay on complying with a congressional subpoena for his financial records.
"What is your best handicapping of how the Supreme Court is likely to handle these cases, these critical cases, as they relate to the impeachment inquiry?" Klein asked. These rulings and grants come a week after the House Intelligence Committee finished two weeks of public impeachment hearings and roughly a week before the House Judiciary Committee holds its first impeachment hearing.
Katyal said"they absolutely have enough right now ... to impeach the president and to seek his removal." "We're at chapter one of this investigation," Katyal responded, though he also said he doesn't believe the American public has made up its mind yet.
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