Flynn subpoena sets up battle between White House, Congress

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s subpoena of Michael Flynn’s private documents sets up a potential battle between the legislative and executive branches over whether the Justice Department will enforce Congress’s will.

The Justice Department is charged with enforcing congressional subpoenas. But it is led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the Flynn subpoenas are related to investigations of Russia’s involvement in last year’s election, a sore spot for President Trump.

Democrats are already making their fears known.

“I worried about that from the start, the fact that we don’t have cooperation between the executive branch and the legislative branch raises questions about how far we can go,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Justice Department.

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