Catching Up with the Jan. 6 Contempt of Congress Cases
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Justice Department's Re-Interpretation of the Immunity Doctrine to Impeachment
The executive branch of yiew is, you know, if there's not a precedential on that rejects this, this is still a fair constitutional theory to assert against congress. So the justice department has talked about a testimonial immunity as perhaps being better explained a as an implied limit ation on congress's legislative investigatory power. That sort of re interpretation of the immunity doctrine can't explain why there would be immunity in oror implied limitation in cases rimpeachment is involved," he says.
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