D.C. Court of Appeals Holds Officer’s Attempt to Stop a Defendant’s Flight Was a Seizure Requiring Reasonable, Articulable Suspicion
The officers pulled into an alleyway and saw a group of 5 individuals. The officers got out of the vehicle, approached the group, and asked him if they had any guns. Then, one began to run.
D.C. Circuit Panel: Congress Must Pass Law to Authorize House Subpoena Enforcement
On August 31, 2020, in a 2-1 decision after a remand from the en banc court, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives (“Judiciary Committee”) had no valid cause of action to enforce its subpoena for executive branch records related to former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn, II, where the Executive Branch blocked McGahn’s testimony and asserted “absolute testimonial immunity.”