President Trump asserts executive privilege over the entirety of subpoenaed materials pertaining to the Mueller report. Follow live updates:
The Justice Department has informed House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler this morning that the “President has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.”House Judiciary committee is voting on holding Attorney General Barr in contempt of Congress
This can take a lot of forms: Sometimes that disobedience means refusing to appear before a committee to testify, and sometimes that means refusing to pony up requested documents.According to the Congressional Research Service, contempt can be used to coerce compliance, to punish the person or to remove whatever the obstruction is.They can tell the House or Senate sergeant at arms to detain or imprison the person in contempt until he or she honors congressional demands.
The House Judiciary committee is voting this morning on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress.
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