House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement today at a hearing where Attorney General William Barr failed to show refusing to testify (prepared remarks have been corrected as delivered): “Attorney General Barr has informed us that he will not appear today. Although we worked to accommodate his concerns, he objects … Read more
It should come as no surprise that the man William Safire once called “the Coverup-General” when he blocked the independent counsel investigation into Iraqgate (his strategy was to stall past Dec. 15, 1992 when the law authorizing independent counsel expired, thanks to Republicans) The Patsy Prosecutor, lied to the American people and lied to congressional … Read more
Last week CNN reported that Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York’s attorney general: Deutsche Bank has begun the process of providing financial records to New York state’s attorney general in response to a subpoena for documents related to loans made to President Donald Trump and his business, according to … Read more
The authoritarian Trump regime’s policy of “total obstruction” of Congress will be put to the test this week. By week’s end, contempt proceedings may be invoked and jail space made ready to enforce subpoenas for witnesses under the inherent contempt power of Congress. House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings has pulled back from plans to … Read more
There have been several good analyses of the Mueller Report Volume II on obstruction of justice. Let’s review some of them. Quinta Jurecic, the Managing Editor of Lawfare, breaks it down in Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map: The Mueller report describes numerous instances in which President Trump may have obstructed … Read more