The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s ruling requiring the Justice Department to give the House Judiciary Committee grand jury materials related to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report
.of U.S. District Court in Washington effectively put the onus on the Justice Department to persuade the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals or, perhaps, the Supreme Court, to reverse her ruling.However, the court battle could also put new pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to clarify whether she still considers issues related to Mueller’s report a viable part of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
“The Speaker has announced that the House impeachment inquiry will focus narrowly on the whistleblower complaint and issues surrounding Ukraine,” DOJ lawyer Elizabeth Shapiro wrote. The Justice Department brief citesabout Pelosi’s statement and, in an unusual move, quotes an assessment by the authors of the story that the Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Rep. Jerry Nadler , have been “at least temporarily relegated to the wings.
Howell, an appointee of President Barack Obama, gave the Justice Department until Wednesday to turn over the requested records. She gave Democrats until noon on Tuesday to respond to the Justice Department. House lawyers have indicated they plan to oppose any extension of the DOJ’s Wednesday deadline.
“A stay is warranted because, without a stay, the Department will be irreparably harmed,” Shapiro wrote. “Once the information is disclosed, it cannot be recalled, and the confidentiality of the grand jury information will be lost for all time — particularly if Petitioner United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary … decides to publicize the now-secret grand jury materials, which it has asserted the power to do through a simple majority vote.
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