The House Judiciary Committee has voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress for not turning over to them the entire, unredacted, Russian election meddling report by Robert Mueller. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said that was a sign the country was in a constitutional crisis and an effort to resist tyranny in order to preserve the Republic.
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It would still have to be voted on by the House before Barr would be officially in contempt.
On May 2, Nadler said that constitutional crisis was looming--he was still negotiating to get the full report. Wednesday he said it was here after the President asserted executive privilege over the information at the advice of Barr.
Barr is a familiar face, both at Justice where he was attorney general under George H.W. Bush, and in communications circles, where he was a Verizon Communications executive and a member of the Time Warner board. Barr filed an affidavit in the AT&T-Time Warner legal case (Justice unsuccessfully challenged the deal and is still challenging it), taking issue with DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim's characterization of a meeting about the deal where Barr was also in attendance.
Barr promised at his confirmation hearing that he would recuse himself from any matters related to Justice's legal challenge of that merger.
