“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.”
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