DOJ asks judge to block House from Mueller grand jury material, says Watergate decision was wrong
Justice Department lawyers used the example of Richard Nixon's impeachment inquiry to argue that the House Judiciary Committee should be denied its request to obtain information about grand jury materials assembled under special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of President Donald Trump.
Lawyers from the Justice Department surprised the judge, Beryl Howard, by arguing that the decision to release normally secret grand jury materials to the House in 1974, when Nixon faced impeachment, was incorrect, and that those materials should have been kept from Congress. according to NBC News."Wow," Howell said. "The department is taking extraordinary positions in this case.
That inquiry kicked off two weeks ago after it was revealed that Trump, who had been witholding Congressionally appropriated military aid from the nation of Ukraine, pressured Ukraine's newly elected president in July to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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