Jerry Nadler blames Trump administration "lawless" for challenging subpoenas

The Speaker of the Judiciary, Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Intensified his attacks on President Trump, calling the administration "lawless".

Nadler made this statement during an animated interview on Wednesday night.

"It's a lawless administration. This deprives the American people of the information they need by defying all subpoenas, "he told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow after his committee voted to convict the Attorney General in defiance of mandate of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller on Russia and the underlying documents.

"This is the first administration where you say we will reject all congressional summonses, be it a mole investigation, security checks or any other act that they challenge. Against law.

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"The law says very clearly that, at the request of the ways and means committee, the taxman should return taxes from anyone. They simply do not know that. So, they ignore the law and hope that they can get away with it, we can not have a situation in which the president becomes a king or a dictator. "

He continued, "The American people understand that no. Nobody. Not the president, no one can be above the law. And we must apply that. "

The explosive evaluation took place after Nadler told reporters that the country had reached a "constitutional crisis".

"We have been discussing for a long time the approach of a constitutional crisis, and we are now," Nadler told the press on Wednesday. Although he rejected the option of dismissal, he said the United States was at a critical time to determine whether they could remain a republic or make the transition to a form government. tyrannical.

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Nadler's committee voted in favor of partisan politics to keep Barr in contempt Wednesday and angered the White House by not delaying the vote. At the same time, the president invoked the privilege of the executive – the refusal to comply with Congressional summonses.

Nadler also compared Trump to former president Richard Nixon in that both refused to disclose information by invoking the privilege of the executive.

Nadler recalled the Supreme Court's decision compelling Nixon to deliver recordings of his private conversations with advisers, which he said was "most sensitive to the privilege of the executive power".

"The Supreme Court has stated on eight occasions that the public interest in justice and responsibility outweighs the President's interest in privacy," he said. .

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The White House, in asserting the privilege of the executive, accused Nadler of being indulged in a "blatant abuse of power".

"Unfortunately, instead of letting negotiations go on, you have scheduled a vote for unnecessary contempt, which you have refused to postpone to allow more time for compromise," Deputy Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to the committee.