A federal judge in District of Columbia repeatedly evinced exasperation with the U.S. Justice Department’s arguments that former White House counsel Don McGahn can’t comply with a subpoena for his testimony as part of the House’s impeachment inquiry, questioning when the federal government believed former officials could speak about their experiences working for the executive branch.

U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the District of Columbia on Thursday trained her focus on Justice Department deputy assistant attorney James Burnham’s arguments that the House could not go to court to enforce the subpoena, and that neither current or former top White House aides could be made to testify before Congress.

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