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WASHINGTON (AP) A bipartisan group of four senators is moving to protect special counsel Robert Mueller's job as President Donald Trump publicly muses about firing him.
Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Cory Booker of New Jersey are introducing legislation Wednesday that would give any special counsel a 10-day window in which he or she could seek expedited judicial review of a firing, the four senators said in a statement.
The legislation, which combines two bipartisan bills introduced last summer, signals escalating concerns in Congress as Trump has fumed about a Monday FBI raid of the office of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Trump has privately pondered firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and publicly criticized Mueller and his Russia probe.
In addition to investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, Mueller is also examining whether the president's actions constitute obstruction of justice. As the investigation has worn on, Trump has repeatedly called it a "witch hunt." On Monday, after the Cohen raid, he said it was "an attack on our country." The raid was overseen by the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan and was based in part on a referral from Mueller, said Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan.
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eleny
(46,166 posts)They've been such weak kneed fools.
mac56
(17,575 posts)He won't sign it.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)didnt bother to bring it to a vote?
In the case of Bill Clinton they not only INSIST on a special counsel but one who had an overt BIAS against the Clinton's and he still found NOTHING
boston bean
(36,224 posts)lied about it because he was ashamed and it would harm his marriage.
He was impeached for lying under oath about a blow job.
Ken Starr is a piece of shit.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)found absolutely NOTHING, so they tagged him with lying about sex.
Can you imagine the jail time rump would get for lying about sex, or civil financial settlements?