So, this is totally being appealed and we'll just see where that leads, but Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson basically dismantled the idea that White House and former White House aides can claim "absolute immunity" from testifying to Congress. The Don McGahn's testimony doesn't seem so important right now, in the midst of discussion of Ukraine, but if the House wants to more fully explore the regular pattern of obstruction that the White House has engaged in at every turn, it becomes a pretty significant part of the picture. And of course, this ruling effects other Trump Administration and former Trump Administration folks who have declined to speak--Mulvaney, Kupperman, Bolton, etc.
It's hard not to read through the decision, though, and not hear a refutation of AG William Barr's speech to the Federalist Society.
Presidents are not kings. They just aren't.
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