{"id":4002,"date":"2019-06-20T15:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:49:54","slug":"william-barr-and-congress-broken-contempt-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/william-barr-and-congress-broken-contempt-power\/","title":{"rendered":"William Barr and Congress\u2019 broken contempt power"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast month, the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend that the House hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. The\u00a024-16 decision<\/a>\u00a0was made along partisan lines. The vote came 19 days after Congress\u00a0demanded<\/a>\u00a0Barr deliver to members an unredacted copy of the Mueller report \u2014 which he refused to do.<\/p>\n

That the committee\u2019s Democrats held Barr in contempt is unsurprising. Last month, Barr held a news conference that spun the Mueller report favorably toward President Donald Trump, who drives the left crazy. Subsequently, the attorney general ticked off Democrats further by haggling over if and when he would appear before Congress. When he did show up, he tossed gas on the flames by dismissing Robert Mueller\u2019s complaint about the presser as \u201csnitty\u201d and generally refusing to kowtow to the left side of the dais. And, of course, he initially defied the\u00a0committee subpoena<\/a>\u00a0to release the unredacted Mueller report, arguing among other things that it would be illegal to share privileged grand jury information….(Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend that the House hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. The\u00a024-16 decision\u00a0was made along partisan lines. The vote came 19 days after Congress\u00a0demanded\u00a0Barr deliver to members an unredacted copy of the Mueller report \u2014 which he refused to do. That the committee\u2019s Democrats held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[185],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-oversight","tag-ripon-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-12y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}