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BREAKING: The House votes to hold AG Barr and Don McGahn In civil contempt. Party line vote was: 229-191.
Next step is for the House to decide whether to immediately go to court to try to force McGahn to testify. House May also seek to press for more underlying Mueller evidence in court, though DOJ and Judiciary Committee are slowly making progress.
Despite some pushback, it’s hard to describe this as anything other than a civil contempt vote. The House excluded the extraneous, flowery language that previous contempt resolutions have used to attack their subjects, but the result is the same.
Contempt is more of an abstract notion than a formal process — the goal is to take the subject to court. Both Rs and Ds described today’s action as “contempt,” though both have reasons for doing so. And others have reasons for saying it isn’t contempt.
