Analysis: Is Nancy Pelosi greasing the skids for impeachment... of Barr?
By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 2 at 2:36 PM A week ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear she didn’t want Democrats to consider impeaching President Trump, even after the release of a damaging special counsel report.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler , chair of the House Judiciary Committee which would undertake any impeachment proceedings, used equally strong language Thursday to talk about the Trump administration. He said that nothing less than America’s system of government is at stake right now as he threatened to hold Barr in contempt of Congress for not showing up to his committee’s hearing Thursday and for missing a deadline to hand over the unredacted report, written by special counsel Robert S.
If Pelosi and Nadler were inclined to give Barr any leniency, he didn’t help his case at a hearing Wednesday in the Senate. A defiant Barr continued to mischaracterize or downplay key findings in the Mueller report that are damaging to Trump.
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