House Says Formal Impeachment Inquiry Means It Can Get Mueller's Grand Jury Info
Source: National Law Journal
The House is tying allegations that President Donald Trump tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the upcoming 2020 elections to its legal efforts to obtain grand jury material redacted from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
In a court filing made Monday night, days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House is formally launching an impeachment inquiry into Trump, House attorneys pushed back against the Department of Justice’s previous assertions that it was unclear whether lawmakers were actually pursuing potential impeachment.
“This Court should likewise reject DOJ’s attempt to claim for itself the power to declare when an impeachment inquiry is underway in the House. Under the Constitution’s separation of powers, and the authority the Constitution vests in the House alone to structure its proceedings, that power is not DOJ’s for the taking,” the filing reads. “As Speaker Pelosi recently confirmed, the House is ‘moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.’ And the Committee has made plain that the primary purpose of the disclosure it seeks is to aid that inquiry.”
The House Judiciary Committee filed the lawsuit seeking grand jury material redacted from Mueller’s report earlier this year, arguing the information is necessary in deciding whether to start impeachment proceedings against the president.
Read more: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/09/30/house-says-formal-impeachment-inquiry-means-it-can-get-muellers-grand-jury-info/
Here is the document filed today by the House.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15975632/33/application-of-the-committee-on-the-judiciary-us-house-of/
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About time.
