White House lawyer vows to fight ‘tooth and nail’ against ‘inappropriate’ investigations
The Hill reports that White House counsel Will Scharf is vowing to fight "tooth and nail" against sweeping probes into the Trump administration that Democratic lawmakers, empowered by their 2026 midterm victories, plan to open in 2027, calling the planned investigations and subpoenas "blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress's power" that could amount to criminal activity. Scharf threatens to investigate Democrats in return and accuses them of reviving the "lawfare" Trump faced before his 2024 reelection, while incoming Oversight Chair Robert Garcia says the administration should "lawyer up" and that chief of staff Stephen Miller should preserve documents; Representative Stephen Lynch answers Scharf's threat with "Come at me, bro."
