Ex-WH counsel McGahn agrees to testify before House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors next week

McGahn’s testimony is coming after a years-long legal battle between House Democrats and the Trump administration, after McGahn ignored a 2019 subpoena from the Judiciary panel and the Justice Department under then-President Donald Trump fought the subpoena and other sensitive information about Trump in court.

The Biden administration’s Justice Department and the House struck an agreement earlier this month for McGahn to testify about Trump’s attempt to obstruct former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, avoiding a precedent-setting legal battle over the case. A…