House tells Supreme Court that Mueller grand jury material is needed now

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Source: Washington Post

A House committee’s investigation of President Trump “did not cease with the conclusion of the impeachment trial,” congressional lawyers told the Supreme Court on Monday, and it would be stymied if the Justice Department continues to withhold grand jury material.

The new filing comes in response to the department’s request that the Supreme Court put aside court orders that Congress receive secret grand jury evidence from Robert S. Mueller III’s special-counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in March upheld a lower-court finding that Congress can obtain grand jury materials in connection with impeachment proceedings — an exception to secrecy rules that typically prevent release of such evidence.

Last week, the Justice Department said the decisions created “serious separation-of-powers concerns” that demand the Supreme Court’s attention and asked that it put on hold release of the information until the court decides whether to get involved.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/house-tells-supreme-court-that-mueller-grand-jury-material-is-needed-now/2020/05/18/c6f28bec-9925-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html

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1. Maybe the DOJ should re-read the Constition............the House has the right and power

to have oversight even over the Supreme Court............

[maxsolomon]

2. Laws are so 2016.

We're Post-Constitution now; Raw Power is all that counts!

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3. The only thing Bill Barr sees is a big brown sticky stain--

from wiping his ass with the document.

[Botany]

4. We need to see the Mueller Report

n/t

[Baked Potato]

5. I want to see what Sam Nunberg said.

And others, too.