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Under medical privacy regulations, health care providers can disclose health information in response to a subpoena, but they are not required to. designer491/iStock via Getty Images

Federal subpoenas for transgender care records raise medical privacy concerns and put providers in a legal bind – a health law expert explains what’s at stake

Margaret Riley, University of Virginia

The government has provided little information about its allegations or about the criminal charges it is seeking to pursue against transgender care providers.
(L-R) Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) during a meeting on July 27, 2021, of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images

House committee investigating Capitol insurrection has a lot of power, but it’s unclear it can force Trump to testify

Kirsten Matoy Carlson, Wayne State University

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney says the American people “deserve the full and open testimony of every person with knowledge of the planning and preparation for Jan. 6.” Will they get it?
Republican lawmakers are seen as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) oversees a vote on the second article of impeachment against President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives, Dec. 18, 2019. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Congressional Republicans abandon constitutional heritage and Watergate precedents in defense of Trump

Ken Hughes, University of Virginia

An expert on Watergate says that today’s House Republicans have taken precisely the opposite position than the GOP took in 1974 on the president’s power to withhold documents from Congress.

Related Topics

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Executive privilege
  3. January 6 US Capitol attack
  4. President Richard Nixon
  5. Richard Nixon
  6. Separation of powers
  7. US Congress
  8. US House of Representatives
  9. US Supreme Court
  10. Watergate

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