Professor Jed Shugerman wrote an article for Politico Magazine about the approach that Democratic Congress members should take when questioning Robert Mueller during his Capitol Hill hearing on July 24, 2019.
So far, the solution has been to expand the hearing time. Here’s a better one: None of the members should ask the questions at all.
Their expert staffers should ask all the questions—not just to resolve the battle of egos, but to give Congress its only chance to make any real progress on the issue.
To go by Mueller’s previous statements, the hearings aren’t likely to turn up new information about the Trump campaign. But they could genuinely change the trajectory of the Trump-Russia story, by drawing connections between the report and Mueller’s earlier rounds of indictments, and also by highlighting Mueller’s legal errors—the opportunities he didn’t take, and why he skipped them.