House Democrats agree to meet with DOJ before Barr contempt proceedings (today, Tues)..

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Zachary Basu12 hours ago
House Democrats agree to meet with DOJ before Barr contempt proceedings

https://www.axios.com/justice-department-house-judiciary-bill-barr-contempt-3c105523-e432-43d1-90f1-36fe72221bd9.html


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Attorney General Bill Barr. Photo: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has agreed to meet with the Justice Department on Tuesday — not on Wednesday afternoon, as Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd had proposed — to "negotiate an accommodation" to Democrats' demands for the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's full, unredacted report.

Why it matters: Nadler has scheduled a vote on Wednesday for the committee to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the full report. In a letter sent on Monday, Boyd noted that Nadler has yet to take the Justice Department up on its offer to privately view a less-redacted version of the report and invited him to do so before the proposed meeting.

Go deeper: House Judiciary to begin contempt proceedings against Bill Barr this week

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1. Go Dems

Make them know the game playing is over

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4. Dems know what they are doing

The Con is going down

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10. Hehehe

I heard that during the campaign

[ehrnst]

9. Why do you think we need to be "nudged?"

What is it that you think they aren't doing that they could be doing?

[HopeAgain]

2. Don't cancel the vote or delay it

Democrats need to act decisively and they can't give an inch, there is nothing about Barr that can be trusted.

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5. How can a person appointed by the President have access to the full report but our elected officials

do not? I was under the impression that this country was a democratic republic that was accountable to its citizens.

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6. I know. The optics are terrible! It all reeks of a cover-up.

And, with McConnell sounding the alarm, today claiming the Mueller Report is case closed, they are just doubling-down.

[ScratchCat]

7. Its because

The founding fathers never envisioned a scenario where the POTUS would be under investigation for colluding with a foreign country to alter the election and one party refuses to do anything about it. It all comes down to that.