A top White House attorney wrote in a letter to House Democrats that those probes could cross the line into criminality.
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On Monday, the White House warned that likely Democrat-led congressional probes into the Trump administration or its officials may be against the law.
White House counsel Will Scharf, writing to Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) in a Nov. 9 letter, contended that Congress must “identify a legitimate legislative purpose underlying its investigative acts” and that “failure to do so … represents a clear abuse of power and an affront to our constitutional system of government and to the rule of law.”
In addition, Scharf said that “recent public statements” by Democratic lawmakers imply they are allegedly trying to “abuse the legislative process to intimidate and interfere with the lawful functioning of government,” adding that Garcia and other Democratic legislators have said that they would issue subpoenas to threaten, harass, or deter the Trump administration from governing, according to as story by the Epoch Times.
“Compulsory process is a power Congress has for oversight functions, and only for oversight functions,” the letter stated. “Abusive threats and public statements about the indiscriminate issuance of subpoenas, along with threats directed at prospective targets within the Administration make it abundantly clear that any forthcoming investigative processes will be deployed to harass and aggrandize, rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.”
Scharf’s letter quoted social media posts made by Rep.-elect Richard Ojeda (D-N.C.), Rep.-elect Katy Padilla Stout (D-Texas), and others who asserted they want to probe the administration following last week’s midterm elections, which saw substantial Democratic triumphs that permitted the party to seize both houses of Congress.
Ojeda, on Nov. 7, wrote in a post on X that he “can’t wait to watch him squirm in a hearing room,” referring to Pentagon head Pete Hegseth, which was cited in Scharf’s letter. Also, Garcia himself wrote in a post on X following the election, “Lawyer up.”
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