U.S. Attorney General William Barr will not show up before the House Judiciary Committee for his long-awaited hearing, which had been scheduled for Thursday. The announcement came hours after Barr’s contentious hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which he defended his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings from his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Barr and the Justice Department objected to the committee’s plan to have a staff attorney question Barr after members of the committee received their allotted time. In a statement, Justice Department spokesperson Kerri Kupec accused committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) of placing “unprecedented and unnecessary” conditions on Barr’s testimony. “This is not a legitimate use of congressional investigative authority,” Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd said in the letter.

Source: Huffington Post May 01, 2019 22:29 UTC