One of the top attorneys assisting the House Judiciary Committee in their oversight investigation into the Trump administration is planning to remove absence from his law firm, in keeping with a Democratic congressional source acquainted with the matter.

The law firm Kramer Levin is predicted to announce that white-collar criminal defense lawyer Barry Berke, one of the two top legal professionals Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) hired for the the remaining month, is taking his leave of absence on Friday.

A spokesperson for Kramer Levin confirmed the circulate, saying, “It has been inside the works for some time.”

Last month, Nadler introduced that Berke and previous White House legal professional Norman Eisen, each vocal critic of President Trump, might be running together with his committee’s legal body of workers.

He said the pair would look at a “variety of issues,” along with viable corruption, ethics violations, and obstruction of justice.

Eisen and Berke will provide awareness on matters associated with “the Department of Justice, consisting of the Department’s evaluation of Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller’s research, and different oversight and coverage problems within the Committee’s jurisdiction,” Nadler stated in a statement at the time.

The lawyers are high-profile hires, given their public critiques of the Trump management.

Berke has written substantially with Eisen on obstruction of justice and other potential legal exposures regarding Trump. He is seen as an effective litigator with sizeable experience.

Berke and Eisen are expected to help the Judiciary panel as it embarks on sprawling research of Trump’s businesses, own family, marketing campaign, and management, as the House Judiciary Committee demanded paperwork from at least 80 distinct firms and people.

The probe displays an attempt by Democrats to apply their newfound majority inside the House to launch aggressive investigations into Trump and his management.

“Investigating these threats to the rule of thumb of law is an obligation of Congress and a central function of the House Judiciary Committee,” he stated. “We have seen the damage performed to our democratic institutions in the years that the Congress refused to conduct responsible oversight.”

Trump, who initially signaled he would cooperate with the Judiciary probe even though he believes it’s miles a “hoax,” then indicated on Tuesday that he becomes unwilling to accomplish that, bringing up what he stated become former President Obama’s dealing with congressional probes at some stage in his time in the workplace.

“They didn’t provide one letter,” Trump said, relating to the Obama administration. “They didn’t do something. They didn’t deliver one letter of the requests.”