Administration lawyers can’t turn to the federal courts to quash a highly unusual subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about documents related to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. consular facility in Benghazi, Libya, legal experts on congressional investigations say.
Courts would be reluctant to step in the middle of a dispute between the State Department and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Relations, said Stephen Ryan, head of the government strategies practice at McDermott Will & Emery.
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