This would be advantageous if a sympathetic judge had been assigned to the first case and the plaintiff believes the judge would rule favorably on the second case.
The first, regarding the subpoena for Don McGahn, is a civil case and the second, their request to view grand jury material is a federal case.
The panel improperly sought to connect the McGahn case to the grand jury case simply because they're both part of their investigation of President Trump.
Closer examination demonstrates that these connections between the two cases are too superficial and attenuated for the instant McGahn Subpoena Case to qualify.
The committee's request to unseal secret grand jury information from former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe has to do with the application of the law under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, while the McGahn case is a civil matter dealing with enforcing a subpoena where immunity has been asserted.
The committee gets it backwards because they are trying to relate completely unrelated cases simply because it filed them in service of its overarching desire to bring various matters together in its investigation of the President.
Howell echoed the DOJ's argument, noting that "The legal issues in the grand jury case, are entirely absent from the McGahn case."
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/08/14/jerry-nadler-tries-mislead-district-court-judge-doj-gets-clobbered/
The first, regarding the subpoena for Don McGahn, is a civil case and the second, their request to view grand jury material is a federal case.
The panel improperly sought to connect the McGahn case to the grand jury case simply because they're both part of their investigation of President Trump.
Closer examination demonstrates that these connections between the two cases are too superficial and attenuated for the instant McGahn Subpoena Case to qualify.
The committee's request to unseal secret grand jury information from former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe has to do with the application of the law under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, while the McGahn case is a civil matter dealing with enforcing a subpoena where immunity has been asserted.
The committee gets it backwards because they are trying to relate completely unrelated cases simply because it filed them in service of its overarching desire to bring various matters together in its investigation of the President.
Howell echoed the DOJ's argument, noting that "The legal issues in the grand jury case, are entirely absent from the McGahn case."
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/08/14/jerry-nadler-tries-mislead-district-court-judge-doj-gets-clobbered/
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