Nadler Calls on Barr to Clarify Trump’s Assertion About Emergency Powers Amid Pandemic

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 Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has called on the Justice Department to provide more information about emergency powers that President Donald Trump claimed he could use during the CCP virus pandemic.

In a letter on April 24, Nadler and Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, pressed Attorney General William Barr for more information about recent Trump comments asserting that his administration has authority to take actions to combat the pandemic.