Axios Quotes Raphael Prober and Karen Christian on GOP Subpoena Impact
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For its article “GOP's subpoena test,” Axios quoted Akin Gump congressional investigations practice co-heads Raphael Prober and Karen Christian.
The article discusses the congressional oversight between House Republican and House Democrat as a result of investigations into the Trump administration. Axios reports that “several lawyers anticipate both government and private sector clients will push back on requests from Congress more than in years past.”
Prober said, “There has been an increasing appetite to litigate these matters over the last number of years, and on the right issues, I don’t see that trend abating.”
The article also reports on the impact that this will have on popular issues like ESG. Christian, who served as former general counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce and chief counsel to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said, “At the end of the day, a committee can’t launch an investigation untethered to a legislative purpose. When the committee continues to push for information that doesn’t have that link, there may be more of a stomach to push back."
