Congress Wins Access to Confidential Mueller Probe Records
- House Democrats had sought information collected by grand jury
- Justice Department had argued the courts lacked jurisdiction
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House Democrats won access to confidential records from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, a victory over President Donald Trump’s efforts to deny them information.
“It is the district court, not the Executive or the Department, that controls access to the grand jury materials at issue here,” U.S. Circuit Judge Judith Wilson Rogers in Washington wrote for the majority. The panel delayed its ruling for seven days to give the Trump administration an opportunity to seek a so-called en banc rehearing before a larger panel of appeals court judges.