Article snippet: House Judiciary Committee Chairman filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday to enforce a subpoena for testimony from Don McGahn, the former White House counsel who at the Trump administration's direction defied lawmakers’ request to appear before the Judiciary panel. The announcement comes two weeks after former special counsel MORE, testified for nearly seven hours on Capitol Hill about his 22-month long Russia investigation. Lawyers for Judiciary Committee Democrats described McGahn as both “critical” and the “most important fact witness” during a call with reporters Wednesday before the lawsuit was filed, noting that he witnessed key obstruction episodes examined by Mueller. Those incidents include the president ordering McGahn to remove the special counsel in the middle of his investigation, which McGahn refused to do, and President Trump directing the then-White House counsel to create a false record surrounding the incident. One Judiciary counsel compared McGahn to John Dean, the former Nixon White House counsel whose testimony before Congress was viewed as pivotal during Watergate. “It is fair to say that Mr. McGahn is cited more than any other witness” in the Mueller report, another Judiciary counsel said, suggesting the president is stonewalling his testimony because Trump worries it could be damaging. Nadler indicated shortly after Mueller’s testimony that the McGahn lawsuit, which has been expected for several weeks, was imminent. The chairman subpoenaed McGa... Link to the full article to read more