The House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 8 at 5:25 PM The House Judiciary Committee has voted along party lines to hold the attorney general of the United States in contempt.
Noah Bookbinder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington tells me, “The assertion of executive privilege over the entire Mueller report and supporting documents is laughable as a legal matter. The Mueller report was not prepared as advice to the president, which is what executive privilege was meant to protect.
“Every White House, of course, has the ability to properly invoke executive privilege in order to protect certain information,” says attorney Mark S. Zaid. “The Trump Administration’s invocation to protect the special counsel report in the wake of a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee is, however, odd, at least from a legal, nonpolitical standpoint.
Obama said he had a pen and he had a phone, and leftists cheered.
I thought SpeakerPelosi said the House of Representatives is the first branch of government. Ya can’t have it both ways.
'Tries to obliterate'. Christ, that's histrionic.
Of you guys didn't have double standards, you wouldn't have any standards at all.
'Op-eds that should have been written every year for the last 20 years'
“This is a Constitutional crisis because the Executive Branch won’t give us the information that they actually already gave us and made possible for us to read (99%) un-redacted but we won’t but... shame on them and stuff.”
Lol. I don't remember this level of pearl-clutching during the 'Pen & Phone' era of American goverment (2008-2016). What's the real reason for your inconsistency in reporting WAPO?
WaPo gets it wrong.... AGAIN. House democrats are the ones trying to obliterate the executive branch... & they've suddenly been check-mated by Trump!!!
Bullshit.
“I have a pen 🖊 and a phone ☎️ “ — Barry Hussein Soetero
DerangedDonald is trying to be an autocrat and his minions follow him. Isn't this the way Hitler started his regime? People get ready. Your support of DerangedDonald will be your downfall!
Guess someone forgot Obama's pen and phone.
Just STOP 🛑!! Everyone sees straight through your propaganda machine! No one believes your 🐂💩!!!
“No one is more worthy of prosecution under the law than someone who believes they are above it.” -M David H 8xGramps
He is the coup he cries about.
Our government now only has one branch - the Executive branch overseen by the omnipotent President Trump.
Not normal and if you are not scared 😟 atleast be awake, because let’s pray Donald Trump walks all over the DEMs and does what he wants, he will not, i repeat he will not leave the office of the presidency. He sees himself as a king just as he saw himself as the smartest 🤭😫😩
Does WaPo ever give actual news or just a steady stream of “opinion” which it’s readers then take as actual news..🤷♂️Lol.
It must be very frustrating for WaPo writers and their political partners in the Democrat Party to spin lies into pretzels to try to attack Trump and he STILL gets more popular...maybe it has something to do with your unfounded attacks? Just a thought...
LMAO!
Trump wants to be like Madero
I think Congress has done a bang up job all by themselves! They appear to be using Trump as some sort it fertilizer to feed their crops of lies, deception, and treason.
Ha hahahah!! You people are delusional. The House is destroying itself. Neither the president or the attorney general have done anything illegal. Nothing.
He must be stopped. The House has no practical choice but to start impeachment proceedings.
This presidency, government is just another division of The Trump organization
The democrats have no fight to give.
is a garbage fake news agency
Lawyers your not. Separation of powers idiots.
And seems to be getting away with his autocratic 💩 day after day. The country is worn out with his garbage, 'normality' has taken over. Where are 24hr 7day street rallies with 100sX1000s of P.O'd people WH, who refuse 2 go home until potus45 resigns?!
Even many Democrats are unhappy with Nadler's treatment of Barr. Barr was scheduled to testify until Nadler changed the format for the questioning. A mostly unredacted Mueller report sits gathering dust in a room. Barr has provided far more transparency than required by law.
Incredible how willfully deceptive you are.
2019: Dems hold AG Barr in contempt after he RELEASED Mueller report with national security redactions. Wapo supports Dems 2012: Dems refuse contempt vote of AG Holder after refusing to release ANY info on slain US officer in operation 'fast-n-furious' Wapo supports dems.
Okay so that's your opinion.. many others have a different opinion do you ever talk about the other side do you ever give the other half of the story.
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Opinion: what a crock of crap
as usual, that's unfair to Trump. Congress has worked long & hard, as long as I've been alive to obliterate itself. especially the representatives that don't represent. and the Supreme Court? weirdos in black.
Hit job
I hope the left gets that chip knocked off their shoulder in 2020!!!
Go JERRY!
Utterly absurd.Wapo knows it. Congressional dems made a mockery of themselves and our system today. Barr would literally have to break the law to release national security info in Meuller report. Dems only interested in creating fake narrative of coverup. Wapo complicit. PERIOD
Id actually call it 'self immolation' by Congress To be more accurate FoxNews
Watch him succeed in shredding our constitution. 🙄 Dems too weak to make any big moves. No spine as usual.
I’m just waiting for when the Congress sets up a guillotine on Capitol Hill.
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Holy hell what a dumb article. What happened to the Washington Post?
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