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Former President Donald Trump has submitted a January 6, 2021 inquiry to a House Select Committee to challenge the documents and the subpoena seeking his testimony, according to documents filed in federal court in Florida. I filed.
A spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee declined to comment.
“There is a long standing precedent and practice that the separation of powers prohibits Congress from coercing a president to testify,” Trump’s attorney David Warrington said in a statement. .
“After the J6 Commission embarked on the unprecedented act of asking President Trump to appear for depositions on Monday, November 14, he resolved these concerns consistent with the separation of executive privilege and powers. This is because the partisan committee insists on pursuing a political path, and President Trump has taken a third step in this dispute between the executive and legislative branches. We have no choice but to involve the judiciary, which is the agency of the government,” Warrington continued.
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