The White House pushed back on the validity of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Friday, urging House Republicans to withdraw their subpoenas and interview requests.

In a scathing new letter to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-OH), Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, claimed the impeachment inquiry lacks “constitutional legitimacy” because it has not been brought up for a vote of the full House; rather, it was opened by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

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The four-page letter, the White House's strongest pushback against the inquiry yet, comes a week after Comer subpoenaed Hunter Biden, the president’s son, and James Biden, the president’s brother, to sit for depositions and issued requests for other members of the president’s family to sit for transcribed interviews. Sauber called these subpoenas and interview requests “irresponsible” and said they were sent “despite the fact that, after a year of investigating, voluminous records and testimony from dozens of witnesses have refuted your baseless allegations about the President.”

Because of this, they urged the chairmen to “reconsider your current course of action and withdraw” the subpoenas and transcribed interview requests and, if they have “legitimate requests for information” within the White House, to gear the request toward them.

Sauber claimed that the committees are “so determined to impeach the President” that they misrepresent the facts, ignore “the overwhelming evidence disproving” their claims, and shift their “rationale for your ‘inquiry.’”

One of the administration's top lawyers also pushed back on the constitutional authority the committees have to call their investigation an "impeachment inquiry" because of the lack of a vote of the full House.

“You also claim the mantle of an ‘impeachment inquiry’ knowing full well that the Constitution requires that the full House authorize an impeachment inquiry before a committee may utilize compulsory process pursuant to the impeachment power — a step the Republican House Majority has so far refused to take,” Sauber says in the letter.

It also cites the chairmen’s and Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) past statements to support their point. Back in 2019, Johnson called the Democrats' opening of an impeachment inquiry into former President Donald Trump a “sham” because they did not have a vote; instead, it was “initiated unilaterally via a press conference,” much like the current one was opened.

“This pattern of distortions and falsehoods lays bare that no amount of truthful testimony or document productions will satisfy you and exposes the improper nature of your Committees’ efforts,” the letter reads. “Congressional harassment of the President to score political points is precisely the type of conduct that the Constitution and its separation of powers was meant to prevent.”

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In a statement, Comer said the White House is not being transparent and that it continues to "obstruct our investigation at every turn."

“Instead of fulfilling President Biden’s pledge to have the most transparent administration in history, the White House is withholding over 82,000 pages of emails where Joe Biden used a pseudonym when he was Vice President, refuses to provide proof that Joe Biden loaned his brother money, and now seeks to block the Bidens, their associates, and current and former White House staff from testifying before Congress," he said in the statement. "We are not deterred by this obstruction and will continue to follow the facts and hold President Biden accountable to the American people.”