US Justice Dept. has filed notice that it is appealing last week’s ruling by a federal judge in Washington, DC, who said the US House is legally entitled to see grand jury material that was gathered during the Mueller investigation.
Once the grand jury material is turned over, DOJ said,"it cannot be recalled, and the confidentiality of the grand jury information will be lost for all time." That's especially so, the government said, if the House decides to make any of the material public, which House leaders have said they have the power to do by majority vote.
"Tipping the scale even further toward disclosure is the public's interest in a diligent and thorough investigation into, and in a final determination about, potentially impeachable conduct by the President described in the Mueller Report," he wrote. Mueller's investigators said because longstanding Justice Department policy forbids indicting a sitting president, they would not even say whether any of Trump's actions constitution obstruction of justice. But their report tellingly noted the existence of the"constitutional process for addressing presidential misconduct" — namely, impeachment.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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