President Donald Trump is invoking executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report and other documents subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee. The claim would allow Trump to withhold those materials from Congress.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 22-12 on Wednesday morning to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not turning over the full report and certain other materials.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders says in a statement that: “Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the attorney general’s request, the president has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege.”
Before the vote, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said there’s a “constitutional crisis” over the Trump administration’s refusal to provide Congress with a fuller copy of Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation.
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