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Justice Department asks judge to block House from getting Mueller grand jury materials, says Watergate decision was wrong
Just sayin', but if your impeachment defense strategy requires you to rewrite Watergate, you've got a problem.
Thoughts?
Justice Department lawyers on Tuesday used the example of Richard Nixon’s impeachment inquiry to argue that the House Judiciary Committee should be denied its request to obtain information about grand jury materials assembled under special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of President Donald Trump.
Lawyers from the Justice Department surprised the judge, Beryl Howell, by arguing that the decision by former Chief Judge John Sirica to release normally secret grand jury materials to the House in 1974, when Nixon faced impeachment, was incorrect, and that those materials should have been kept from Congress at the time, according to NBC News.
Just sayin', but if your impeachment defense strategy requires you to rewrite Watergate, you've got a problem.
Thoughts?