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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said the agency's internal watchdog would investigate the seizure of data of Democratic House lawmakers and journalists during leak investigations. Horowitz said in a statement Friday the investigation "will examine the Department’s compliance with applicable DOJ policies and procedures, and whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based upon improper considerations," according to The Washington Post. The announcement follows Senate Democratic leaders Friday demanding Trump administration Attorneys General Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions testify about the seizures of data from House Democrats in 2017 and 2018 – following the release of a news...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration says the president's immediate advisers are absolutely immune from having to appear before Congress, but legal scholars say the issue isn't that clear cut. The question grew more pressing Wednesday as President Bush ordered former White House counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional summons in the controversy over the administration's dismissals of federal prosecutors. The Democratic chairmen of the Senate and House judiciary committees have said they would consider introducing contempt of Congress citations against any subpoena recipients who resist. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., could begin that process as early as...

I am glad that the Chairman and I were able to reach a sensible solution on the resolution that would avoid immediate issuance of subpoenas for testimony and documents from the Department of Justice on the FALN clemency matter. As I said last week, I did not agree with the President?s decision to grant clemency to the FALN prisoners. Furthermore, I have heard nothing to make me change my view that his decision was wrong from the hearings held in this Committee or in the Foreign Relations Committee or in press reports. On the other hand, I do not believe...