ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “William Barr must be about to set some kind of record. Less than three months on from his Valentine’s Day swearing-in ceremony, the conservative legal stalwart could be hours from becoming one of the most polarizing attorneys general in history. Unless there’s a last minute deal with Barr, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler plans to hold a vote Wednesday [5-8-19] declaring the nation’s top law enforcement official in contempt of Congress, in a dispute over his handling of the Mueller report. If approved by the committee, the contempt report would go to the full House, where Democrats have a 38-seat majority…Barr’s extraordinary tenure has become a metaphor for the political dislocation and perilous constitutional waters facing the nation at the conclusion of the Russia investigation. Unable, or unwilling to land a significant punch on the President, House Democrats are narrowing their sights on Trump’s top current and former officials. Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn is also in danger of being censured by the Democratic House — after the White House told him not to hand over documents relevant to the Russia investigation.”
–Stephen Collinson, “Barr facing contempt vote as constitutional collision escalates,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 7, 2019 10:57 am