Nadler moving forward. Taking action to get the supporting information behind the Mueller report.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-panel-chairman-says-mueller-134110110.html
U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he would go to court on Friday to seek access to grand jury evidence compiled by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Nadler told a news conference that since Justice Department policy does not allow the prosecution of a sitting president, the U.S. House of Representatives was the only institution of government that could hold President Donald Trump accountable for actions outlined in the Mueller report.
"To do so, the House must have access to all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full ... powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity, recommendation of articles of impeachment," Nadler said, reading from the court petition.
A second pending legal move by Democrats, a federal lawsuit to compel testimony from former White House Counsel Don McGahn about Trump's efforts to impede the Russia probe, will come early next week, Nadler told the news conference.
McGahn, a star witness in the 448-page Mueller report released in April, told federal investigators that Trump directed him to seek Mueller's removal and then to deny that he had been instructed to do so. Democrats view the alleged episode as an act of obstruction of justice that could lead to impeachment proceedings against the Republican president.
Nadler said the grand jury information gathered during Mueller's investigation "is critically important for our ability to examine witnesses, including former White House counsel Don McGahn, and to investigate the president's misconduct."
"We will win the court fight because the legal excuses the White House has been using are extraordinarily weak from a legal point of view," Nadler told CNN earlier in the day.
The top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Representative Doug Collins, criticized Nadler's move.
"Judiciary Democrats are suing for grand jury material to which they have no right. ... Chairman Nadler’s legal action here is sure to fail, weakening Congress’s ability to conduct oversight now and into the future," Collins said in a statement.
Nadler described the pending legal actions, particularly the McGahn lawsuit, as a potential watershed that could dismantle recent White House efforts to stonewall congressional investigators by directing current and former Trump aides to defy subpoenas and refrain from providing testimony.
"It will open up the floodgates to all, to enforce all the subpoenas and get all the testimonies because they're all the same nonsense legal argument," he said.
