CONGRESS/ETHICS/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House officials directed Kellyanne Conway on Monday [7-15-19] not to comply with a congressional subpoena compelling her to answer to accusations of multiple violations of a federal ethics law, invoking the ‘longstanding principle of immunity for senior advisers to the president.’ The House Oversight and Reform Committee authorized a subpoena for Ms. Conway last month after Henry J. Kerner, a special counsel for a nonpartisan government watchdog agency, told the committee that Ms. Conway should be fired from the White House for her ‘egregious, repeated and very public violations’ of a federal ethics law called the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities at work. But President Trump has vowed to defy all subpoenas, and on Monday, when Ms. Conway was due to testify, Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, told Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland and the chairman of the oversight panel, in a letter that she would ignore the summons.”
–Catie Edmondson,”White House Directs Kellyanne Conway to Defy House Subpoena,” The New York Times online, July 15, 2019