Barr to testify to House Judiciary in March

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Katie Phang ✔@KatiePhang

🚨 Barr to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on March 31, 2020, regarding the removal of US Atty Jessie Liu; the Rudy Giuliani info-feeder process; and the #RogerStone sentencing issues.

https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2020-02-12_ltr_to_barr.pdf …

3:42 PM - Feb 12, 2020

Corrected - I had Senate in the subject line at first - House Judiciary is MUCH better!

[gratuitous]

1. One day short of seven weeks from today

The delay shouldn't be a problem, I'm sure. Just having his testimony scheduled should be sufficient for the AG to learn his lesson about meddling with his line prosecutors and lying to the American people about it.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Operative word: "should"

Likelihood: 0


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[Dennis Donovan]

4. Preet: "March 31 is multiple scandals & lifetimes away"

Link to tweet

[triron]

7. That's the best Nadler could do????

JFC.

[StarfishSaver]

10. Probably

It's better to have Barr come voluntarily, even if at a date later than the committee wants.

The only alternative is to subpoena him to come earlier and, if he refuses, to go to court to enforce the subpoena - which would mean he likely wouldn't testify for months, if at all.

March 31 isn't great, but if he shows up on that date, that's better than a long extended fight.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Can we have Jerry Nadler

bring in Kamala Harris to sit behind Barr?

[Dennis Donovan]

6. That's the downside to it being in front of House Judiciary, vs Senate Judiciary

No Kamala.

[maxsolomon]

9. At least Nadler will have the gavel.

Unlike the Senate, where Graham does.

[maxsolomon]

8. So, he gets to Gaslight congress in a month and a half.

And half the questioning will be from Trump's toadies.

[Sunsky]

11. Interesting

Salwell, Lieu, Jeffries, Deutch and Demings are capable. This should be good. Hopefully, he'll openly perjure himself.