House Dems Want Sessions For Impeachment Hearing

The Washington Post reports:

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are negotiating for Jeff Sessions’s testimony in their impeachment investigation of President Trump, an appearance they hope could bolster their inquiry given the former attorney general’s rocky relationship with Trump.

Congressional aides on the panel reached out to Charles J. Cooper, an attorney for Sessions, during the summer, according to officials familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely describe private talks.

Cooper told committee staff that Sessions — whom Trump never forgave for recusing himself from overseeing the special counsel probe — would need a subpoena to testify. “I have made clear that Attorney General Sessions will not appear except under compulsion of a congressional subpoena,” Cooper said in a phone interview this week.

UNRELATED: Charles Cooper, you may recall, unsuccessfully defended California’s Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court. Cooper later “changed his mind” about same-sex marriage when his own daughter became engaged to a woman.