Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
19-1328	D.C. Cir.	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	OT 2020

Issue: Whether an impeachment trial before a legislative body is a "judicial proceeding" under Rule 6(e)(3)(E)(i) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

SCOTUSblog Coverage

Court shelves oral argument in dispute over Mueller materials, grants two new cases (Amy Howe, November 20, 2020)
House Committee on the Judiciary asks court to put off oral argument on Mueller materials (Amy Howe, November 17, 2020)
Justices release December calendar (Amy Howe, September 16, 2020)
Court will take up dispute over secret materials from Mueller report (Amy Howe, July 2, 2020)
Relists Return (John Elwood, June 30, 2020)
Petitions of the week (Andrew Hamm, June 23, 2020)
Justices block release of secret Mueller grand jury materials (Amy Howe, May 20, 2020)
DOJ asks court to temporarily block release of secret Mueller grand jury materials (Updated) (Amy Howe, May 7, 2020)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
05/07/2020	Application (19A1035) for a stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to The Chief Justice.
05/08/2020	UPON CONSIDERATION of the application of counsel for the applicant, IT IS ORDERED that the mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, case No. 19-5288, is hereby stayed pending receipt of a response, due on or before Monday, May 18, 2020, by 3 p.m. ET, and further order of The Chief Justice or of the Court.
05/18/2020	Response to application from respondent House Committee on the Judiciary filed.
05/19/2020	Reply of applicant Department of Justice filed.
05/20/2020	Application (19A1035) granted. The application for stay of the mandate presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted. The issuance of the mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, case No. 19-5288, is stayed pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such petition is filed on or before June 1, 2020, by 5 p.m. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the judgment of this Court. If no petition for a writ of certiorari is filed on or before June 1, 2020, by 5 p.m., the stay shall terminate.
06/01/2020	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 1, 2020)
06/15/2020	Brief of respondent House Committee on the Judiciary in opposition filed.
06/18/2020	Reply of petitioner Department of Justice filed.
06/22/2020	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/25/2020.
06/29/2020	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2020.
07/02/2020	Petition GRANTED.
08/03/2020	Joint motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.
08/10/2020	Joint motion to extend the time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including August 31, 2020. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including October 14, 2020.
08/31/2020	Brief of petitioner Department of Justice filed.
08/31/2020	Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner.
09/16/2020	SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
10/05/2020	Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioner GRANTED.
10/08/2020	Record requested from the U.S.C.A. District of Columbia Circuit.
10/14/2020	Brief of respondent House Committee on the Judiciary filed.
10/19/2020	Record received from the U.S.C.A. D.C. Circuit is electronic and located on PACER, some of the record has been electronically filed.
10/21/2020	Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed.
10/27/2020	CIRCULATED
11/13/2020	Reply of petitioner Department of Justice filed. (Distributed)
11/17/2020	Motion to remove the case from the December 2020 argument calendar filed by respondent House Committee on the Judiciary. (Distributed)
11/19/2020	Response to motion to remove the case from the December 2020 argument calendar from petitioner Department of Justice filed. (Distributed)
11/20/2020	Motion to remove the case from the December 2020 argument calendar GRANTED.
06/14/2021	Suggestion of mootness and motion to vacate the judgment of the court of appeals filed by petitioner.
06/15/2021	Response to motion from respondent House Committee on the Judiciary filed.
07/02/2021	The motion to vacate the judgment is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit with instructions to direct the District Court to vacate the October 25, 2019 order granting the application of the Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. House of Representatives. See United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U. S. 36 (1950).
08/03/2021	JUDGMENT ISSUED.