Posted on 05/12/2019 8:36:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
As Democrats push forward with a plan to haul Attorney General William Barr before a federal judge for contempt of Congress, a stunning admission by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler could torpedo that case, legal experts say.
The House Judiciary Committee last week took the first step toward holding Mr. Barr in contempt for defying a Congressional subpoena demanding special counsel Robert Mueller’s “full unredacted” report along with all the supporting evidence. Republicans say he even rejected an amendment that sought to carve grand jury information out of the subpoena, issued in March.
But Mr. Nadler now says he “never intended” to force Mr. Barr to release confidential grand jury information, which under federal law is severely restricted in how it can be released.
Republicans were left wondering what the last six weeks’ worth of fighting was about, and legal experts were left wondering whether Mr. Nadler’s case will hold up in court, should be try to ask a judge to enforce his demands.
“The court would be curious as to why the subpoena appears broader than the current position of the House Judiciary Committee,” said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.
Mr. Turley said if Mr. Nadler did not want the attorney general to release the grand jury information, the subpoena would have explicitly stated so.
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Nadler is not very smart.
Which is not a terribly good place to attack PDJT from.
Nadler is a national disgrace.
Jerrold “Pizza the Hut” Nadler: A living, breathing, constipational crisis....
He never had any intention of following through. He just wanted to slime the Trump admin. Mission accomplished.
Nah, he got what he wanted. The media and commies have an apocalyptic meltdown without bothering to look at the legality of providing a 100% unredacted report. They go on a (saracen-supporting) crusade to get Barr to produce the entire thing, threaten to hold him in contempt, and now all of a sudden he backtracks? No, Homie don’t play that.
Stalinists lie. Always
Mr. Nader should be disbarred.
Fat B@st@rd is a morbidly obese egomaniac and a SPECTACULAR hypocrite.
This is the same fat slob who STIILL defends President Rapist, Claims Bubba never committed any crimes while in office.
SPIT
Yep. The entire charade was to be able to introduce “Constitutional crisis” into the media talking points.
they are going to try and use it in impeachment hearings
I expect Nadler is going to find a way to drop the contempt charge, to avoid having a judge throw it out. At this point any clear cut legal victory for Trump is something Democrats do not want to risk. Having a Federal Judge throw out the contempt charge because Barr was obeying the law is pretty clear cut.
We are on to him and he will not succeed in any of his treasonous activity.
They are playing to their base, lying to them. They will not release ALL of the report is the falsehood they are perpetuating.
The Democrats aren’t smart and I suspect they don’t really want Mueller or Barr to testify further.
IF this loser nadler was capable of shame, he would do the only honorable thing...
LOL!! Their impeachment effort is going absolutely nowhere!
The problem the Democrats have is that they are panic strucken about the real threat that the whole matter of trying to conduct a coup on Trump is coming out big time. It is never a good situation to be under the gun, because you cannot be completely rational. Trump , OTOH knows he did nothing wrong, so he merely has to sit on the sidelines and watch the RATs self-destruct, while throwing in a tweet or two just to unnerve them even more!
Yup.
Ole “Humpty Dumpty” Nadler
Should go back where he
Came from.
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