Dem committees win new powers to investigate Trump

The Hill ^ | 6/11/2019 | mike lillis

[bitt]

The House voted Tuesday to grant new legal powers to a key committee investigating the Trump administration, handing Democrats another tool in their battle to bore deeper into Robert Mueller's report on Russia's election meddling and potential obstruction by President Trump.

The 229-191 vote broke down strictly along partisan lines with no defectors from either party, highlighting the entrenched divisions on Capitol Hill between Democrats accusing Trump of conducting a "cover-up" related to Mueller's findings, and Republicans fighting to protect their White House ally from what they consider a political "witch hunt" heading into 2020.

The resolution empowers the House Judiciary Committee to go before a federal court in seeking the Department of Justice's (DOJ) compliance with subpoenas for disputed materials and witness testimony. Two figures are named explicitly in the text: Attorney General William Barr, who has refused to release some parts of Mueller's report and the underlying documents; and Don McGhan, the former White House counsel who has defied a Democratic subpoena to appear before the committee.

But in a late-debate twist, Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that he's reached a deal with DOJ officials to access "Mueller's most important files."

The surprise 11th-hour agreement has tempered some of the long-running tensions between Democrats and the administration. And leading up to the vote on Tuesday, Democratic leaders simultaneously hailed the resolution as a necessary and aggressive expansion of their constitutional oversight powers, while also suggesting they might not ever need to use it.

"The timeline will, in part, depend on whether the DOJ continues to cooperate with our legitimate Article I powers of oversight and investigation," said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Caucus.

"If they continue to cooperate with us, I would expect that we will not race to the courthouse."

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[Gene Eric]

>> Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that he’s reached a deal with DOJ officials to access “Mueller’s most important files.”

Here’s the glossary, jackass.

[oldenuff35]

This will make no difference to the courts as then smack the dems down. How long has it been since the dems won a case against Trump that stuck? Never??

[Cowboy Bob]

The 229-191 vote broke down strictly along partisan lines with no defectors from either party

When the truth comes out, and the SHTF, all the newly elected Democrat Reps need to be held accountable. They marched in lockstep with the radical left.

Just look at what happened to the Dems from marginal districts in 2010 who voted for Obamacare...

[mrsmith]

“Win” new powers...
LOL! The Dems and The Hill are partners.

[dp0622]

I can’t even type 3 words of what I’d like to do to nadler :)

And Schiff :)

But it seems to me that President Trump is on.....drum roll please...

DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!!!!

[lee martell]

A roomful of Elmer Fudds, each with their own sherlock holmes hat and oversized magnifying glass.
“I’ll get that wascally wabbit if it’s the last thing I do!!”

[dowcaet]

The BIG Lie and Witch Hunt continues. The RATS are all out of cards. They’re gonna go down in flames with this fraud of an investigation.

[Army Air Corps]

Schiff’s facial expression looks like he is being sodomized with an electric cattle prod.

[Gene Eric]

No scumbag is worth one second of your/our freedom.

The disheartening reality is that our neighbors continue to vote these jackwagons into power.

[rawcatslyentist]

Bob the Mule didn't find squat!

All he needed was a mirror.

[Bullish]

Have you ever seen a more punchable face than Nadler’s?

[Lean-Right]

SCOTUS will see right thru this
as passing laws to suit a
particular agenda. The Dems had
better be careful with this. But
I regress, since when has any
Democrat had any foresight?

[justa-hairyape]

So the illegally elected reps in Cali tipped the scale.

[justa-hairyape]

The idiots named the targets. They want it shot down. They are just playing their rubes.

[vpintheak]

I sure hope the GOP remembers this and smacks the lefts candy-behinds down when they win majority back some day.

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[trebb]

Ummmm - a single House voting for something doesn’t make it enforceable....

[Flick Lives]

When the truth comes out, and the SHTF, all the newly elected Democrat Reps need to be held accountable.

Along with their co-conspirators in the press who worked with the corrupt FBI in the coup plot against Trump.