House Democrats will take their most forceful action to date against the Trump administration's refusal to cooperate with congressional investigations.
House Democrats on Tuesday will take their most forceful action to date against the Trump administration's refusal to cooperate with congressional investigations in a vote to send subpoena fights with Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn to federal court for resolution.
"If the Department proceeds in good faith and we are able to obtain everything that we need, then there will be no need to take further steps," Nadler said in a statement."If important information is held back, then we will have no choice but to enforce our subpoena in court and consider other remedies."
A criminal contempt citation would refer the matter to the Justice Department to take up -- a highly unlikely scenario given Barr's role as attorney general -- and Democrats opted to advance a proposal to speed up their legal disputes. This week the House Oversight Committee is also expected to vote to hold Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress over documents and information in the panel's investigation into the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Democrats used the session -- featuring several legal experts who appear frequently on television -- to drill down on the special counsel's conclusions regarding obstruction of justice. While Mueller made no judgement as to whether Trump did obstruct justice, he explored nearly a dozen potential episodes, which Democrats revisited on Monday.
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