The Department of Justice (DOJ) must hand over to Congress certain redacted information from Robert Mueller‘s special counsel report, a federal judge ruled Friday in a major win for House Democrats investigating President Trump.
And Howell ruled that the House does not need to authorize the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry with a floor vote in order to be legitimate, in a full-throated rebuke of the president’s attacks on the proceeding.
“In carrying out the weighty constitutional duty of determining whether impeachment of the President is warranted, Congress need not redo the nearly two years of effort spent on the Special Counsel’s investigation, nor risk being misled by witnesses, who may have provided information to the grand jury and the Special Counsel that varies from what they tell [the House Judiciary Committee],” Howell wrote in her decision.
View the complete October 25 article by Harper Neidig on The Hill website here.