Article snippet: The head of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing back on the White House's demands that his panel end its sprawling investigation into the Trump administration. Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE's investigative findings. "As a threshold matter, your failure to comprehend the gravity of the Special Counsel’s findings is astounding and dangerous," Nadler wrote. "The Mueller Report found that Russia interfered in our elections and outlined our nation’s acute vulnerability to another attack. The Special Counsel also found that the President engaged in multiple acts to exert undue influence over law enforcement investigations." The top Democrat wrote that the committee strongly believes the "overwhelming weight of professionaljudgment" would favor prosecuting MORE for obstruction of justice as Mueller laid out in his report, if it weren't for the Office of Legal Counsel policy against charging sitting presidents. Nadler's letter comes a day after Cipollone accused the Judiciary Committee of "harassing and seeking to embarrass political opponents after an exhaustive two-year investigation by the Department of Justice did not reach the conclusion that some members of the Committee apparently would have preferred," arguing that “the appropriate course is for the Committee to discontinue the inquiry discussed in the March 4 letter.” And the Thursday letter is just the latest development in an ongoing battle between the House to investigate the Trump administration and... Link to the full article to read more
Nadler blasts White House counsel for demanding end to investigation into Trump administration | TheHill
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