McCarthy’s brief, filed jointly with House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, is an extraordinary intervention by minority lawmakers to confront the majority in court — particularly. And it comes as McCarthy himself is facing a subpoena from the select committee requiring him to testify on May 31.
He has yet to indicate whether he will cooperate with the panel, but his legal argument suggests he sees the subpoena itself as invalid as well.
The Republican leaders say they decided to file the brief in response to House Democrats’ own decision to submit their own brief in Bannon’s case earlier this month. Pelosi touted the filing in a May 10 press release, contending that the House was defending itself against Bannon’s contention that the select committee was improperly constituted.
“[Bannon]’s attacks against the validity of the subpoena are deeply flawed: They ignore the deference that a court owes the House regarding the meaning and application of its own rules and procedures”, House Counsel Doug Letter wrote in the filing...
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