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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:10 PM Mar 2019

House committee chairs demand full Mueller report by April 2 deadline

Source: NBC News

In a three-page letter to the attorney general, they wrote that his summary of the Mueller report “is not sufficient for Congress.”

WASHINGTON — Six Democratic committee chairs in the House sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday requesting that he submit the full report from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation to Congress by next Tuesday, April 2.

In a three-page letter to Barr, they wrote that his summary of the Mueller report “is not sufficient for Congress.”

“We look forward to receiving the report in full no later than April 2, and to begin receiving the underlying evidence and documents that same day,” the letter said.

The top House Democrats argued that the provision of the report “in complete and unredacted form” and the underlying evidence and materials would be fully consistent with the Justice Department’s practice and precedent with Congress.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-chairmen-call-barr-submit-mueller-report-congress-april-2-n987241?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma




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dhill926

(16,358 posts)
3. I doubt if we'll ever see the full report....
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:42 PM
Mar 2019

too much is at stake for the repubs...they will just stonewall and flat out refuse...

ancianita

(36,137 posts)
12. They might. Trump said he doesn't care if the Special Counsel Report's made public. So there's that
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 11:08 PM
Mar 2019

Also, there's the legal precedent of Nixon vs. the U.S. ruled that presidential privilege re materials subpoenaed for use in a criminal trial cannot override the needs of the judicial process if that claim is based merely on the ground of a generalized interest in confidentiality. Nixon's own "summary" was rejected, and he was ordered to deliver the subpoenaed materials to the District Court.

So if Congress -- the First Branch of government -- files in the DC District to get the Report and all supporting evidence, SCOTUS precedent exists to hold The People's interest over the arbitrary desire of a president -- or AG, in this case, who does the prez's distasteful dirty work -- refusing to hand it over.

Yep, we'll see.

in2herbs

(2,947 posts)
4. We the people deserve to see the full report ASAP. As for future steps, by my count there are 18
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 08:15 PM
Mar 2019

states with a democratic majority in the legislature. (Don't know about governors.) If one or all of these states passed a law barring a presidential candidate from being on the ballot in 2020 without evidence of 10 years of tax returns, Trump would not be able to cheat his way to an electoral college victory because he won't qualify to be a candidate in 2020. It seems a simple way to beat him in 2020.

aggiesal

(8,924 posts)
8. We paid for it, we should see it ...
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 08:53 PM
Mar 2019

or at least our representatives.

We didn't pay for this just so one person can read it.

Release the Report!

Marthe48

(17,027 posts)
9. Isupport the patriots in Congress
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:24 PM
Mar 2019

The patriots who are fighting for the United States. Not the russian patriots.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
10. I thought Mueller was this upstanding guy who could be trusted by Dems and Repubs alike?
Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:58 PM
Mar 2019

Two years of investigations for this vaguery? Do they all just stick together like shit on a shingle?

Rizen

(723 posts)
13. Barr is Trump's appointed crony
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 12:17 AM
Mar 2019

saying a sitting president can't be indicted. That goodness we took the house. The USA would be so screwed if Dems hadn't won in 2018.

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