NEW: US Justice Dept. asks judge to block US House from obtaining Mueller grand jury material: 'Wow, OK,' judge responded after a DOJ attorney suggested a Watergate case granting Congress access to grand jury material was wrongly decided.
Douglas Letter, an attorney for the Judiciary Committee, said the materials are needed to investigate what Trump knew about Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Thethat could demonstrate obstruction of justice, among other things.
Republicans argue that impeachment is not underway until a formal House vote. Democrats say no such vote is necessary, a view Howell appeared to share.After Elizabeth Shapiro, an attorney in the DOJ's civil division, made this argument in court, the judge called the Department of Justice's position"extreme."
"We are in an impeachment inquiry, an impeachment investigation, a formal impeachment investigation, because the House says it is," Letter said. , who presided over multiple Watergate cases, granted Congress access to grand jury materials as part of the House's impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon.
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