NEW: Barr faces Wednesday contempt vote on refusal to share full Mueller report
-- House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler set up a Wednesday vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to provide Congress with a fully unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
“The attorney general’s failure to comply with our subpoena, after extensive accommodation efforts, leaves us no choice but to initiate contempt proceedings in order to enforce the subpoena and access the full, unredacted report,” he said. “If the Department presents us with a good faith offer for access to the full report and the underlying evidence, I reserve the right to postpone these proceedings.
Nadler requested that Barr allow all members of Congress and some staff to have the ability to view redacted portions of the report in a secure location and work with the Congress to get court approval to release grand jury information, which is protected by law.
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