Supreme Court will hear Democrats’ bid to get full Mueller report

The move means the information likely won’t be released ahead of the November election

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/07/02/supreme-court-will-hear-democrats-bid-to-get-full-mueller-report/

Posted July 2, 2020 at 11:23am

The Supreme Court will decide whether the House Judiciary Committee can get the normally secret grand jury materials from the special counsel Russia probe — all but assuring that the information won’t be released ahead of this year’s election in November.

The justices announced Thursday that they had agreed to hear the Justice Department’s appeal in a one-line statement, with no noted dissent and no reasons for the move.

The case will be heard in the court's next term, which starts in October. It is the second Supreme Court showdown arising from a fight for information from the Democratic-led House and efforts to block the release from Trump or his administration.

The Supreme Court is poised to release an opinion as soon as Monday in a separate case about whether congressional committees can obtain Trump’s personal and business financial records from an auditing firm and two banks.

Because of the court’s typical schedule, such a high court review in the grand jury materials case would likely stretch beyond the November presidential election. The House first requested the materials from the Justice Department more than a year ago.

The case is Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary, Docket No. 19-1328