House Democrats continue to threaten to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt, and the DOJ is battling back:
Question now becomes whether Nadler views this as a “good faith” effort and will move to delay Wednesday’s contempt proceedings. https://t.co/VcVCdF0DFs
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) May 6, 2019
Boyd is sounding pretty conciliatory here, especially given how unequivocal he was last week in rejecting the subpoena.
We’ll see if Nadler bites and moves to delay contempt proceedings… pic.twitter.com/QFxmzgvMeR
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) May 6, 2019
Updated story: DOJ moves to fend off Barr contempt vote https://t.co/HXZgi09rOY
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) May 6, 2019
Rep. Jerrold Nadler wants the less-redacted version of the Mueller report made available for more members of the House and Senate. So far six Dems have been offered the opportunity to read the less-redacted version. Can you guess how many have taken advantage of the opportunity?
"All six House and Senate Democrats declined to read the less-redacted version of the [Mueller] report offered [by AG Bill Barr] to a select group of senior lawmakers" https://t.co/TUQ9k0Cnht
— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 6, 2019
Dems now want wider access to the less-redacted report that the ones who have been granted access haven’t read? Perfect:
The Justice Department on Monday tried to head off a contempt of Congress proceeding against Attorney General William Barr, offering House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) the chance to negotiate about the committee’s subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report.
In a letter to Nadler, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd invited the chairman to a negotiation session on Wednesday to discuss an “acceptable accommodation” that would potentially give more lawmakers access to a less-redacted version of the report, in addition to “possible disclosure of certain materials” cited in Mueller’s report.
It’s a safe bet that if Barr granted all congressional Dems access to the less-redacted version they’d hold off and insist on seeing a fully unredacted version, and so on.
