House Democrats are fast-tracking a resolution aimed at putting pressure on Justice Department officials to make special counsel Robert Mueller's final report available to Congress and to the public
They have since wrestled with the best way to ensure that the special counsel’s findings are made available to the public, with appropriate redactions for classified information and grand jury material.
Lawmakers said such a measure, though simply symbolic, would send a message to the Justice Department. A vote on the resolution would also put Republicans on the spot, though many GOP leaders — who have insisted that there was no collusion between Trump associates and Russian operatives — have already embraced Democrats’ calls to make the report public.Sign Up
The Democratic committee chairs said that given longstanding DOJ policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted, Congress and the public should be informed of any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Trump so that lawmakers can hold the president accountable — a thinly veiled reference to impeachment.
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