White House Pushes Back Hard Against Threats from Incoming House Oversight Chairman Garcia

White House counsel Will Scharf, in a letter to incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Robert Garcia, says Democrats’ repeated public threats to use their new majority to investigate the president and his administration could cross constitutional limits — and amount to illegal threats.

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At the heart of the White House’s complaint is a legal requirement that congressional subpoenas must be rooted in a clear “legislative purpose” and can’t be used simply to harass or intimidate.