The White House has told two former staffers not to hand over White House-related documents to the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee. Instead, it told the committee to discuss the documents request directly with the White House.
The subpoenaed documents “include White House records that remain legally protected from disclosure under longstanding constitutional principles, because they implicate significant Executive Branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a June 4 letter to the committee chairman, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.).
