Former President Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to avoid cooperating with a subpoena requiring him to testify.
Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Friday night to avoid cooperating with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday sued the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, arguing its subpoena seeking his testimony and documents tied to the Capitol attack was invalid.
"Long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a President to testify before it," a statement from one of Trump's attorneys says.
Former President Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol to avoid cooperating with a subpoena requiring him to testify.
Lawyer for former US president argues 'long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling' him to testify
By Katelyn Polantz, Sara Murray and Gabby Orr, CNN Former President Donald Trump has sued the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, as a way to challenge its subpoena for documents and his testimony, according to filings in a federal court in Florida.
The lawsuit contends that while former presidents have voluntarily agreed to provide testimony or documents in response to congressional subpoenas in the past, none "has ever been compelled to do so."
President Trump sued the House’s Jan. 6 committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the panel’s nine members on Friday, alleging their subpoena requiring him to answer lawmakers’ questions about the attack on the U.S. Capitol runs afoul of the separation of powers.
The former president filed suit against the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, seeking to block the panel’s subpoena that required him to testify and hand over documents.
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