{"id":38904,"date":"2020-05-19T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38904"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:42:34","slug":"this-is-really-pathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38904","title":{"rendered":"This Is Really Pathetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

House Democrats told the Supreme Court on Monday they need access to secret grand jury materials because they are still investigating President Donald Trump in connection with Russia \u201ccollusion\u201d and may want to impeach him, again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a legal filing<\/a> published<\/a> by CNN, Democrats said that they need the grand jury materials because the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s impeachment inquiry into Trump\u2019s alleged obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation is ongoing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unbelievable. The story belongs in the Babylon Bee, but unfortunately it is real. This needs to be added to the list of reasons to end Democrat control of the House of Representatives in November. I can’t believe this is what Democrat voters voted for.\u00a0 What have the Democrats accomplished in the House of Representatives in the past two years other than harass the President?<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

The Democrat-run House seeks \u201cdisclosure to the House Committee on the Judiciary of a limited set of grand-jury materials for use in the Committee\u2019s ongoing Presidential impeachment investigation,\u201d the Supreme Court filing says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The saga began in 2019, when Special Counsel Robert Mueller determined<\/a> that there had been no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. When he released his report, however, Mueller submitted two volumes \u2014 one on the collusion investigation, and one on a separate obstruction of justice investigation. Though he made no recommendation for prosecution, Democrats seized on the latter as providing the basis for potentially impeaching Trump for obstruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats also claimed that certain redactions in the report must have hidden relevant information \u2014 though they declined<\/a> to read a less redacted version. They also demanded access to material that Mueller had shown a grand jury. Normally grand jury proceedings are secret, and so Attorney General William Barr, citing federal law, declined the Democrats\u2019 request. They then held him in contempt of Congress, and took their case for the materials to federal court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The case made its way through the courts, and Democrats won at the D.C. Circuit. The Department of Justice appealed to the Supreme Court on May 7, and Chief Justice Roberts put a temporary hold<\/a> on the grand jury materials on May 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In their court filing, the Democrats complain that further delays in the release of the grand jury materials would make it impossible for them to impeach the president again before Congress\u2019s term ends:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe the Democrats should actually try to accomplish something instead of chasing partisan unicorns.<\/p>\n

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