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Vidal

(642 posts) Wed May 8, 2019, 04:34 PM May 2019

House Judiciary Committee votes to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt over Mueller repor

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Source: CNBC

The House Judiciary Committee votes to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt over the Justice Department's refusal to comply with Democrats' subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted Russia report and its underlying evidence.

The vote passes in the Democrat-led committee shortly after President Donald Trump asserts executive privilege over the Mueller report, an escalation of an already-intense political brawl that appears to be headed to the courts.

The vote on contempt will now head to the full House, where Democrats control a majority of seats.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/08/house-judiciary-committee-votes-to-hold-ag-barr-in-contempt-over-mueller-report.html

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House Judiciary Committee votes to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt over Mueller repor (Original Post) Vidal May 2019 OP

Good, now get it to the floor for a vote so the ass can be formally charged still_one May 2019 #1

And start blue-wave May 2019 #3

K&R Scurrilous May 2019 #2

Locking ... Yonnie3 May 2019 #4

still_one

(92,060 posts)

1. Good, now get it to the floor for a vote so the ass can be formally charged

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2019, 04:41 PM

May 2019

blue-wave

(4,342 posts)

3. And start

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Wed May 8, 2019, 05:32 PM

May 2019

Throwing some of them in the house basement prison.

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)

2. K&R

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2019, 04:43 PM

May 2019

Yonnie3

(17,419 posts)

4. Locking ...

Reply to Vidal (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2019, 06:37 PM

May 2019

Sorry, but this is a duplicate of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142313849 which was posted less than a minute earlier.

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