Jerrold Nadler is a member of the House of Representatives from New York, and chairperson of the House Judiciary Committee.
Those are very responsible positions. And, one would hope, cause the people who hold them to act very responsibly.
With the above in mind, is this really what Jerrold Nadler considers a good use of his time?
From Andrew Desiderio and Kyle Cheney’s article for politico.com:
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is making what he calls a final “counter offer” to Attorney General William Barr’s refusal to grant immediate access to the underlying evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report
In a new letter to Barr on Friday, Nadler (D-N.Y.) gave the Justice Department until 9 a.m. Monday to comply with his adjusted request before moving forward with an effort to hold Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a committee subpoena demanding Mueller’s full unredacted report and underlying documents by May 1.
“The committee is prepared to make every realistic effort to reach an accommodation with the department,” Nadler wrote. “But if the department persists in its baseless refusal to comply with a validly issued subpoena, the committee will move to contempt proceedings and seek further legal recourse.”
robert mueller – a close friend of James Comey – and his all-Democrat staff – not one Republican among them – conducted a two-year investigation into allegations of collusion and obstruction on the part of the Trump administration. It found no collusion and insufficient evidence for any charges of obstruction.
Attorney General William Barr made a statement to this effect and put out a memo – which, mueller stated, was neither inaccurate or misleading.
Then Barr put out the entire report, so anyone could read it and draw their own conclusions.
By any logic, this is OVER.
But not for the Nadlers of the world. Not for the Captain Ahab wannabes, obsessively chasing charges that, apparently, never had any basis in fact, have been fully investigated, and Moby Trump has been cleared of.
Doesn’t Jerrold Nadler have something more important to do with his time? Like creating legislation/pursuing initiatives which might make things better for his constituents and the rest of the country?
Evidently, the answer is no. This is what Nadler is going to do. The fact that a two year investigation, by people who hate Trump and would love to nail him, has resulted in no charges of any kind? Who cares? Irrelevant’n’immaterial. Keep it going. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead.
But…and you can bet your last dollar on this…Nadler’s congressional district will re-elect him in 2020 anyway, with no problem at all. He is as safe as a baby in mommy’s arms.
I’ve made the point many times in this blog that one of the biggest problems Democrats have is safe-seaters like Nadler – who, personally, do not pay the price for acting this way but make things harder for Democrats in more competitive districts who have to try explain their ridiculous behavior.
Nadler is my current poster-boy for this point.
