Nadler Calls for Barr’s Impeachment but Admits It Would Be ‘Waste of Time’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) listens next to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) during a press conference to announce articles of impeachment for President Donald Trump during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Dec. 10, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Attorney General William Barr “certainly deserves” to be impeached but would probably escape such a fate because the Republican-controlled Senate would be unlikely to remove him from office.

Nadler made the remarks during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” on June 21. He said calls for Barr’s impeachment “are a waste of time” and that he will instead seek to punish the attorney general by cutting $50 million from his “own personal budget.”