The fed. court decision giving the House access to Mueller grand jury materials includes a beating for the claim that the House must pass an impeachment resolution before the committees can investigate impeachment.
Notes that's not how it worked for Johnson, Nixon, or Clinton.
Notes that's not how it worked for Johnson, Nixon, or Clinton.
Then the court notes a bigger problem: constitutionally, the House gets to set its own rules. The judiciary can't just come in and impose an impeachment resolution requirement on the House committees.
Lawgeeks, you can find the decision—which also relies, in part, on Federalist 65 and 66 to hold that impeachment proceedings are judicial in character—here: drive.google.com/file/d/1VmpwEd…
