The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected the House Judiciary Committee’s bid to compel testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn, a significant blow to the House and its legal fights.

In a 2-1 opinion, Judges Thomas Griffith and Karen LeCraft Henderson sided with the Justice Department’s argument that the House cannot go to court to resolve “this kind of interbranch information dispute.”

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