Robert Mueller’s investigation began in 2017 and ended in March 2019.
Washington:
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to decide whether Democrats in Congress could gain access to politically explosive evidence underlying the investigation of an alleged collusion between President Donald Trump’s election campaign and Russia.
But even if it could hear arguments in the case in the fall, the High Court is not expected to render its decision before the November 3 elections, which means that Democrats will not have access to the still classified evidence that Special advocate Robert Mueller presented to a grand jury for their battle to defeat Trump.
Mueller’s investigation, which began in 2017 and ended in March 2019, reported a number of contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials during the period when Moscow was is actively involved in the campaign on behalf of Trump.
Mueller found no evidence of a criminal conspiracy by the campaign to work with the Russians, but much of his heavily redacted final report provided none of the underlying evidence which was presented to a grand jury which considered the case.
Mueller also described several cases where Trump tried to obstruct the investigation, but did not formally charge Trump with obstruction, and the Justice Department said there were no grounds for the charge.
Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee believe that the information that Mueller’s team presented to the grand jury could be detrimental to Trump and prosecuted in mid-2019 for access to it.
The Justice Department, led by Trump’s close ally, Attorney General Bill Barr, said it could not release the information.
In March, the Washington Federal Court of Appeal supported the Democrats, and the Justice Department appealed the decision to the Conservative Supreme Court, hoping it would be overturned.
The case challenges the Supreme Court to weigh on the balance of power between the executive branch – including the Department of Justice – and Congress, where Democrats say they have the right to see normally confidential documents of the grand jury.
The House panel continues to investigate Trump on charges of alleged collusion with Russia and obstructing justice in this case.
A separate impeachment effort, linked to Trump’s request to Ukraine to help him in his political struggle with Democrat Joe Biden, succeeded when the Democrat-controlled House voted to remove Trump or formally accuse him of it. last December.
However, after a trial, the Republican Senate voted to acquit Trump of Ukraine-related charges in February.
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