Opinion writerHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) spelled out the stakes after the committee’s vote to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt:“We are now in a constitutional crisis,” House Judiciary Chair @RepJerryNadler tells reporters after his committee voted to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to provide the full, unredacted Mueller report and underlying documents. A president would be motivated to break the law, the attorney general motivated to help cover it up and the president’s party motivated to help the president stonewall. However, the best and most effective recourse, I have come to believe, was undertaken in the emoluments case: Go to court. Should Trump disobey a court order after appeals are exhausted, there would be no choice but to commence impeachment proceedings. They need to speak with one voice, repeatedly, about the threat Trump poses to our constitutional order.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2019 13:00 UTC