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    Trump blocks former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying to Congress

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times May 21, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump directed his former White House counsel, Donald McGahn, not to appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday despite receiving a subpoena from the panel's Democratic chairman, the latest salvo in a battle between two warring branches of government.

    But as the legal and political turmoil grew, a federal judge in Washington upheld a separate Democratic subpoena for Trump's personal and business financial records, a signal that the staunch White House resistance to congressional probes may serve to delay the investigations but not avoid them altogether.

    The ruling is the first by a federal judge considering Trump's legal efforts to avoid congressional subpoenas and could set a legal precedent for

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