{"id":39179,"date":"2019-10-08T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39179"},"modified":"2019-10-08T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:35:40","slug":"can-a-potus-defy-a-congressional-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39179","title":{"rendered":"Can a POTUS defy a congressional subpoena?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/impeach_trump1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39097\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/impeach_trump1-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/impeach_trump1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/impeach_trump1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/impeach_trump1.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am believing we are about to find out in short order whether Congress has the stones to enforce a subpoena it would issue to the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has ordered a State Department official, Gordon Sondland &#8212; the U.S. ambassador to the European Union &#8212; to ignore a congressional summons to testify about what he knows regarding the, um, Ukraine Matter. Sondland took part in a conversation with other officials regarding the phone call Trump had with the Ukrainian president, the one that has gotten Trump into so much trouble; it&#8217;s the call in which he asked for a political favor in exchange for his releasing money to help the Ukrainians fight Russian-backed rebels with whom they are at war.<\/p>\n<p>There appears to be a subpoena on the horizon, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>So, what then? Does Congress issue the subpoena and then let the White House run roughshod over its constitutional authority? Hmm. I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>We now might have a case of the president piling yet another impeachable offense on those that already are building. You know, something about &#8220;no one being &#8216;above the law.'&#8221; If Donald Trump believes he is &#8220;above the law,&#8221; then it well might fall on the House to throw that count onto an article of impeachment resolution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=impeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am believing we are about to find out in short order whether Congress has the stones to enforce a subpoena it would issue to the president of the United States. Donald Trump has ordered a State Department official, Gordon Sondland &#8212; the U.S. ambassador to the European Union &#8212; to ignore a congressional summons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can a POTUS defy a congressional subpoena?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2253,7419,4998],"class_list":["post-39179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-maga","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39180,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179\/revisions\/39180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}