House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Monday scheduled a vote this week to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the battle between the Democrat-led House and President Donald Trump over special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Nadler is proposing to hold Barr in contempt after the Justice Department declined to provide the committee with a full, unredacted version of special counsel Mueller's report on Trump and Russia. The committee had given Barr until 9 a.m. Monday to comply.
The top Republican on the committee, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, said, "Democrats have launched a proxy war smearing the attorney general when their anger actually lies with the president and the special counsel, who found neither conspiracy nor obstruction." Proceedings could be postponed if the attorney general makes a "good faith" effort to comply with the committee, Nadler said. But that appears unlikely.
"The committee is prepared to make every realistic effort to reach an accommodation with the department," Nadler wrote to Barr on Friday. "But if the department persists in its baseless refusal to comply with a validly issued subpoena, the committee will move to contempt proceedings and seek further legal recourse."
The Justice Department has made a less redacted version available for House and Senate leaders and some committee heads, but the Democrats have said that is not enough and have so far declined to read that version. "Bob Mueller should not testify," he tweeted. Trump had previously said he would leave the question to Barr, who has said he has no objection to Mueller testifying.
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