House Democrats are facing another road bump to getting grand jury information from the Mueller investigation
granting the House Judiciary Committee access to the secret grand jury information Mueller relied on to write his final report.
When asking Howell for a stay, Justice Department attorneys asserted the Mueller investigation is now peripheral to the impeachment activity in the House, where a slew of witnesses have been appearing in closed-door sessions in recent days before the House Intelligence Committee to discuss allegations that Trump pushed to withhold U.S. security aid to Ukraine until the country opened an investigation into Joe Biden, his political rival and a leading Democratic presidential contender.
The House submission also criticizes — in two separate places — the Justice Department for an unusual aspect of their stay filing: its reliance on a Washington Post article that asserted Trump’s potential Mueller-related wrongdoing was now on the back burner as the Ukraine focus intensified. The judge said the Justice Department’s arguments suffered from “serious infirmities.” She also described as “minimal” the agency’s chance of prevailing in its appeal.
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