House Judiciary Committee leaves empty chair for Barr after he refuses to testify
By Alicia Cohn - 05/02/19 09:00 AM EDT
An empty chair for Attorney General William Barr sits in a committee room on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
Barr had informed the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he would not testify.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said in a statement that the committee's Democratic chairman placed "unprecedented and unnecessary" conditions on the hearing by arranging to have committee lawyers ask him questions. The DOJ argued that only members of Congress should be asking questions.
The chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), in turn accused Barr of "trying to blackmail the committee" to operate the way the administration wanted.
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