BREAKING: House Judiciary Cmte. votes 24-16 along party lines to hold AG Barr in contempt in relation to the Mueller report; resolution will go to a vote in the full House.
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"I am concerned that the department is heading in the wrong direction,” Nadler said, adding that minutes earlier, Trump took the “dramatic step” of exerting executive privilege."This is unprecedented. If allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction would mean the end of congressional oversight." Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said that the collapse of negotiations between Barr and the committee, as well as Trump's assertion of privilege, brought her to only one conclusion:"that the president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution of the United States of America."
Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the committee's ranking member, said Democrats were acting in haste because they are"angry" that"the special counsel's report did not produce the material or conclusions they expected to pave their path to impeaching the president" — sullying Barr's reputation in the process.
Speaking at a Washington Post event Wednesday, Pelosi said that the attorney general"should be held in contempt," something she had declined to weigh in on as recently as Tuesday. Nadler responded sharply, calling the Justice Department’s continued obstruction of congressional oversight requests “dangerous.”
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