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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed on Friday that the House is considering revisiting its "inherent contempt" powers that would allow it to fine members of the Trump administration who fail to answer its subpoenas.  That really doesn't necessarily change in an impeachment proceeding where they can fight us likewise but there is another remedy that I think we really need to consider that maybe even quicker than an impeachment proceeding or the court proceeding and that is reviving Congress' inherent power of contempt, something we utilize up until the 1930s where we in effect do our own...

On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr cracked a joke about the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee voting yesterday to hold him in contempt. The attorney general made the comment during his remarks at a farewell ceremony for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the Justice Department. Turning to his outgoing No. 2 official, Barr said, "You like records. This must be a record of attorney general being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking office.” The comment drew laughs from the audience.Barr was joined by other top law enforcement officials in the Trump administration, including former Attorney General Jeff...

Left-leaning law professor Jonathan Turley -- who has stood out in recent years as a rare legal analyst unwilling to allow his political views to cloud his constitutional judgments -- has written an absolutely devastating column addressing House Democrats' efforts to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress. Anti-Trump partisans have compiled a list of grievances against Barr, many of them specious , but House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has chosen to focus the contempt charge on the Attorney General's unwillingness to release a tiny redacted fraction of the Mueller report . Turley says this is...

Nadler declares 'constitutional crisis' after contempt vote, accuses Trump of attacking 'essence of our democracy'(full title) House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., declared a "constitutional crisis" on Wednesday, but pushed back on impeachment as an option after his committee voted to hold the attorney general in contempt for defying a subpoena for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted Russia report and underlying documents. "We've talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it," Nadler told the press on Wednesday. Although he pushed back on impeachment as an option, he indicated that the United States was...

I'm in my 30th year of covering national news and I've learned a hard truth about the federal government under numerous administrations. It's a culture where truth-telling is frowned upon; coverup is rewarded and encouraged. That helps answer a question many have recently asked about the FBI and our intelligence community: Why haven't more whistleblowers come forward? Several months ago, an FBI source told me that numerous whistleblowers had gone to members of Congress with information about the FBI and the Trump-Russia scandal, only to have congressional leaders turn their names over to the Department of Justice. True or not,...

Live now. Disgusting spewage by Nadler, Jackson Lee, etc. Yet, it's a hilarious dog and pony show.

Comey’s planet is getting noticeably warmer. Attorney General William Barr’s emissions are the suspected cause. Barr has made plain that he intends to examine carefully how and why Comey, as FBI director, decided that the bureau should investigate two presidential campaigns and if, in so doing, any rules or laws were broken.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that his panel is still planning to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt to Congress, suggesting that a meeting held earlier between committee staff and the Justice Department did not bear fruit. Nadler would not comment on the details of the negotiations with the Justice Department regarding the committee’s demands for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report, but told reporters Tuesday evening the contempt vote was “still scheduled.” “The only thing I’m going to say is at the moment, it’s still scheduled,” Nadler told reporters when leaving Speaker Nancy...

In the past week, it has become clear that Democrats have seen the writing on the wall that impeaching Trump would be a bad political move , and have since set their sights on Attorney General Barr, hoping for greener pastures. Nancy Pelosi has accused him of perjury , and many on the left, including congressional leaders, 2020 candidates , pundits , and celebrities , have called for Barr’s impeachment. Unfortunately for them, fewer voters believe Barr should be impeached. According to a new Rasmussen poll , “Voters think their threats against President Trump, Attorney General William Barr and U.S....

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler has scheduled a vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress after he refused to provide an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Congress. Mr. Nadler and Mr. Barr have been sparring over what the Justice Department will provide to Congress beyond the redacted report that was publicly released last month. Mr. Barr missed a May 1 deadline for turning over the full report and all supporting evidence, and Mr. Nadler softened his demand to a less-redacted report and some of the supporting evidence Mr. Mueller...

**SNIP** It’s a further irony of the moment that the suddenly leading Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, is neck-deep in that spilled garbage, the story unspooling even as I write that then-Veep Uncle Joe strong-armed the Ukraine government to fire its equivalent of Attorney General to quash an investigation of his son, Hunter, who received large sums of money from the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, which had mystifyingly appointed the young American to its board of directors after the US-sponsored overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych. That nasty bit of business comes immediately on top of information that the Hillary campaign was using...

BREAKING: House Democrats have asked the bar associations of Washington, D.C., and Virginia to open ethics investigation into AG Barr

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham invited special counsel Robert Mueller to “provide testimony” to the panel if Mueller wanted to discuss any discrepancies with Attorney General William Barr’s responses to questions from lawmakers this week about a phone call between the two men. “Please inform the Committee if you would like to provide testimony regarding any misrepresentation by the Attorney General of the substance of that phone call,” Graham wrote to Mueller. Graham said Wednesday he will not ask Mueller to testify before the panel about the 448-page report he completed that cleared the Trump campaign of collaborating with...

Attorney General William Barr, in keeping with commitments made during the confirmation process and in an effort to quickly answer questions in which the public had a profound interest, provided within days of its receipt a synopsis of conclusions reached in the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The Mueller Report was issued following a lengthy investigation into charges that President Donald Trump or associates were involved in criminal collusion or obstruction of justice relative to dealings with certain Russians in an effort to illegally influence a U.S. election. Quoting extensively from Mueller's conclusions, Barr's synopsis explained that there was...

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Friday said that the White House is a "moral dead zone" just days after her rebuke of Attorney General William Barr in a Senate hearing. “I’ve characterized what goes on at the White House as a moral dead zone," she said in an interview with MSNBC. "You enter that dead zone and you end up with an attorney general who can’t even tell me that telling the White House counsel to lie is not OK," she added. "He can’t answer that." She also reiterated Friday her belief that Barr “lied to Congress.” Barr testified before...

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 ‏Verified account @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Special Counsel Mueller “deeply disturbed” by Pelosi accusations against AG Barr today and is urging Nadler to push up his hearing to testify and correct the record as soon as possible - @OANN 5:58 PM - 2 May 2019 8,648 Retweets 17,884 Likes 1,060 replies 8,648 retweets 17,884 likes

On the day of Attorney General Bill Barr's testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, there was, as always, a selective leak dropped into the fray. With bated breath, we learned Special Counsel Robert Mueller had sent the attorney general a sternly worded letter grousing that Barr's four-page March 24 explanation of the core conclusions of the Mueller report "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the Mueller's "work and conclusions." The customary histrionics followed. Posturing Democrats on the judicial committee gave long soliloquies on Barr's treacherous behavior. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, accused the...

Attorney General William Barr portrayed himself as an apolitical elder statesman at his confirmation hearing. He declared he'd rather resign than be asked to fire special counsel Robert Mueller without cause and insisted the prosecutor he'd known for decades would never involve himself in a witch hunt as the president claimed. But now Barr has emerged as arguably the most divisive figure in Donald Trump's administration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him on Thursday of lying — a charge the Justice Department called reckless and false — and House Democrats are poised to hold him in contempt. His appearance before...

A miasma of defeat, desperation, and fear wafts over Washington officialdom in the aftermath of the Senate and House Judiciary hearings this week, with an undercurrent of leaked revelations of 2016 FBI spy operations abroad. Attorney General William Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Department of Justice’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election, and his refusal to testify before House Judiciary Thursday, both revealed much about the new attorney general and the Democrats who sought to question him. At their heart, clownish performances aside, the hearings confirmed what we already knew: President Trump was legitimately...

Adam Schiff calls for Barr's resignation, labels him 'unfit' and 'the second most dangerous man in the country'(full title) Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., doubled down on his call for Attorney General William Barr's resignation in an op-ed published in USA Today on Friday morning. In the lengthy piece, Schiff argued Barr helped President Trump mislead the country, undermined the public's confidence in the Department of Justice, and set a precedent for the president to end the 15 investigations into his behavior. "The attorney general of the United States misled the country about an investigation implicating the president. Then he lied...