Washington sources reported that the ruling specifically compels former white house counsel Don McGahn to testify to an inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 US election, but it also has major implications for the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Meanwhile the Department of Justice says it will appeal the ruling.
Furthermore the trump administration has refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry and other Democrat-led investigations, directing current and former white house officials to defy subpoenas for testimony and documents. Further Mr McGahn, who left his post in october 2018, was called to appear before the house Judiciary Committee in May to answer questions about the president's attempts to impede the now-concluded Mueller investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
Moreover in her ruling, US district Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said that "no one is above the law". Perhaps after a vote in the Democratic-controlled house, a trial would be held in the Republican-run Senate and if Mr trump was convicted by a two-thirds majority an outcome deemed highly unlikely he would become the first US president to be removed from office through impeachment. Perhaps the white house and some Republicans want the trial to be limited to two weeks.
