Article snippet: Congress is increasingly turning to its most powerful weapon against MORE: oversight. As more Democrats urge Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) to start impeachment proceedings, she has pointed to the party's recent wins in court against Trump as proof that the party doesn't need to initiate a move that comes with significant political pitfalls. The legal history backs her up approach: Judges tend to side with Congress's oversight powers in court battles over executive privilege. Impeachment proponents on Capitol Hill argue that moving forward with an inquiry would strengthen Democrats’ hands when it comes to other oversight matters. Some legal experts argue that even without impeachment, House Democrats are likely to win their court fights with the administration — even if those fights make it all the way to the Supreme Court. “I think that Congress's role as the oversight organization is so compelling that the Supreme Court would uphold the subpoenas,” Jill Wine-Banks, a member of the special prosecutor’s team during Watergate, told The Hill. Others, meanwhile, say that pursuing an impeachment inquiry over traditional investigations could give lawmakers an edge in court with respect to certain legal battles, especially those over materials related to former special counsel MORE’s investigation. “Starting an impeachment inquiry, I think, strengthens the Judiciary Committee’s hand enormously if it goes to court,” said Michael Conway, who served as counsel on the House Judic... Link to the full article to read more