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House Judiciary Committee Asks Court For Grand Jury Material

Quinta Jurecic
Friday, July 26, 2019, 2:25 PM

The House Judiciary Committee has filed an application with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia requesting the release of grand jury material redacted from the Mueller report, along with additional related grand jury material concerning President Trump and former White House Counsel Don McGahn.

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The House Judiciary Committee has filed an application with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia requesting the release of grand jury material redacted from the Mueller report, along with additional related grand jury material concerning President Trump and former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Notably, the application argues that "the House must have access to all the relevant facts [regarding the president's conduct] and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity—approvals of article sof impeachment."

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Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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