On Wednesday, Nadler held a hearing featuring two Justice Department officials who criticized Barr’s leadership. Following the hearing, Nadler suggested impeachment was an option.

“I think the weight of the evidence and of what’s happened leads to that conclusion,” Nadler told CNN.

Nadler, D-N.Y., suggested earlier this week that his committee “may very well” initiate impeachment proceedings, amid his panel’s broad investigation into the alleged “unprecedented politicization” of the Justice Department under the Trump administration.

But, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec on Thursday, during an interview on “Fox & Friends,” hit back at House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s threat to potentially seek impeachment against Attorney General Bill Barr, slamming the suggestion as simply a “political thing.”

“If people have a problem with Bill Barr coming back to the Department of Justice to restore one system of justice, not a two-tiered system, I think that says a lot more about the critics than it does about the attorney general,” Kupec said. “Because that is what he has done again and again.”

“He approaches all cases with an open mind. He judges them according to the facts and the law without regard to political consideration,” Kupec continued. “This is what he promised to at his confirmation, this is what he has done throughout his tenure as attorney general, and that is what he will continue to do until his last day as AG.”

Aaron S.J. Zelinsky, an assistant U.S. attorney, testified before Nadler’s committee Wednesday and said that the DOJ’s handling of the sentencing for longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone was treated “differently from everyone else” because of his relationship with President Trump.

But Kupec, on Thursday, called Zelinsky’s claims “ridiculous on its face.”
“Mr. Zelinsky — a line prosecutor, a low-level prosecutor — had no interaction with the attorney general or political leadership,” she said. “He is making these accusations based on hearsay, at best. He has no first-hand knowledge of what he’s talking about.”
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