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Republican amendment brings special counsel protection bill to temporary halt
Senators kicked the can down the road one week after Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley added an amendment some say could undermine Mueller's investigation.
MELANIE SCHMITZ APR 12, 2018, 5:05 PM
A bipartisan bill meant to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller against any attempt to fire him has stalled temporarily, after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, added an amendment requiring the special counsel to report any changes in the scope of his investigation to Congress.
According to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, legislators have kicked the can down the road a week.
Im worried about an amendment we havent been able to review that could undermine the investigation, Feinstein said in a statement on Wednesday. Ive discussed this with Chairman Grassley and he has agreed to not take action this week but instead place the bill on the committees markup calendar next week.
The Special Counsel Independence & Integrity Act combines bipartisan bills introduced by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), and provides a 10-day window in which the special counsel may appeal any dismissal to a three-judge panel. If the panel were to find no just cause to dismiss the special counsel in that time, the order would be overturned.
https://thinkprogress.org/bipartisan-bill-to-protect-mueller-stalls-90bef2523234/
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Grassleys amendment, however adds a separate requirement for the special counsel to report any changes in the scope of the investigation to legislators, including any decision to prosecute or not prosecute.
Fucking Grassley really is an asshole......................
winstars
(4,220 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)of the character of these RePukes that continue to protect the very crooked man in the very crooked White House?
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)Why not just bypass congress altogether and just let Trump decide what direction the investigation takes?
The GOP is just buying time waiting for Trump's firings and pardons, then they will vote to protect the new ongoing investigations of every current and future Democrat they are afraid of.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Sometimes Dems give reps waaayyyyy too much credit.
DO NOT TRUST ANY REPS. EVER.