Judge Rules White House Officials Must Testify

“A fed­eral judge has ruled that close pres­i­den­tial ad­vis­ers aren’t im­mune from be­ing forced to tes­tify in con­gres­sional in­quiries in an opin­ion that could even­tu­ally clear the way for nu­mer­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion of­fi­cials to be sum­moned as part of the im­peach­ment in­ves­ti­ga­tion of Pres­i­dent Trump,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“U.S. Dis­trict Judge Ke­tanji Brown Jack­son struck a blow against a decades-old le­gal doc­trine known as com­plete im­mu­nity, which has long been asserted by lawyers rep­re­senting pres­i­den­tial ad­min­is­trations of both par­ties but has re­mained largely untested in the courts.”