Breaking: The House Judiciary Committee just voted to hold William Barr in contempt of Congress for not handing over the unredacted version of the Mueller report
The House Judiciary Committee voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report — the most significant escalation yet in the ongoing oversight battle between Democrats and the Trump administration.
“No person — and certainly not the top law enforcement officer in the country — can be permitted to flout the will of Congress and to defy a valid subpoena,” Nadler added. Late Tuesday night, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said the Justice Department would advise President Donald Trump to assert such privilege over Mueller’s report if the committee proceeds with its contempt vote. On Wednesday morning, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd informed Nadler that Trump had officially invoked executive privilege.
In a letter to Trump, Barr urged the president to invoke a sweeping claim of privilege over the Mueller report as a temporary measure to give him more time to render a “final decision” on which elements of the report are properly privileged.
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