Washington, DC - A US House of Representatives committee unveiled a resolution on Thursday to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn in civil contempt for refusing to testify about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.The resolution authorises House lawyers to seek enforcement in federal court of subpo...
Washington, DC - A US House of Representatives committee unveiled a resolution on Thursday to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn in civil contempt for refusing to testify about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
The resolution authorises House lawyers to seek enforcement in federal court of subpoenas issued to Barr, McGahn and other present and former Trump administration officials. Democratic leaders intend to bring the measure to a vote in the full House on Tuesday.
"The Trump administration is waging an unprecedented campaign of stonewalling and obstruction on issues the American people care about, including its attack on healthcare, its inhumane family separation policy, and the countless egregious examples laid out in the Mueller report," Representative James McGovern, chairman of the Rules Committee, said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump has been engaged in a battle with House Democrats over access to witnesses and documents since the release of the redacted version of an investigative report of Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Attorney General Barr has refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to explain his handling of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference.
Trump instructed McGahn, who was the top lawyer in Trump's White House until October 2018, not to comply with a Judiciary Committee request for his testimony and notes. McGahn is a key witness to many of the possible obstruction of justice incidents identified by Mueller.
The Judiciary Committee voted to hold Barr in contempt on May 8. Subsequent negotiations between the committee and Barr for access to the full report have failed to yield an agreement.
President Trump is engaged in "one of the largest cover-ups in any administration that I can recall," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters on Capitol Hill earlier this week.
Mueller's 22-month investigation was unable to establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia despite finding significant contacts between Trump associates and Russians.
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