The Justice Department (DOJ) has argued that the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee no longer needs grand jury materials from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation after the House approved two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
In a brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday, DOJ lawyers argued that the House’s purpose for seeking the grand jury material was to help them decide on whether impeach the president, adding that the district court judge had allowed the release of the material because she accepted the committee’s argument that they had a “particularized need” to review the material to decide on whether to impeach the president based on the Russia probe.
