FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) speaks during a mark up hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
The House Judiciary Committee has announced that they will hold a series of hearings on the Mueller report, which is another step toward opening an impeachment investigation.
The first hearing will take place on June 10, and will feature former White House counsel John Dean.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said in a statement:
We have learned so much even from the redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Russia attacked our elections to help President Trump win, Trump and his campaign welcomed this help and the President then tried to obstruct the investigation into the attack. Mueller confirmed these revelations and has now left Congress to pick up where he left off.
No one is above the law. While the White House continues to cover up and stonewall and to prevent the American people from knowing the truth, we will continue to move forward with our investigation. These hearings will allow us to examine the findings laid out in Mueller’s report so that we can work to protect the rule of law and protect future elections through consideration of legislative and other remedies.
Given the threat posed by the President’s alleged misconduct, our first hearing will focus on President Trump’s most overt acts of obstruction. In the coming weeks, other hearings will focus on other important aspects of the Mueller report.
These hearings are necessary because a case must be built before the court of public opinion before impeachment can begin. The American people know too little about the Mueller report to be able to give an educated answer on the impeachment question. While it is possible that impeachment hearings could change public opinion, in our current time of hyperpartisanship it is more likely that impeachment hearings become a political theater for both the left and the right.
Every American should read the Mueller report, but since almost all of them won’t, it is up to Congress to educate them about what is in the report as a necessary step toward an impeachment investigation.
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