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U.S. Senate Leader Blocks Bipartisan Bill To Protect Russia Probe
GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
Flake has threatened to hold up all Senate GOP judicial nominee confirmations. Even Trump Senate ally Sen. Lindsey Graham says this legislation is necessary. Mitch McConnell seems determined to do his part in forcing a Constitutional crisis when Trump orders his DoJ lackey Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to end the Mueller investigation. Former USAG Jeff Sessions was fired at this time (before the Mueller Report is finished and published) for a reason.
I have heard from friends in D.C. that the Mueller investigation is almost complete. Mr. Mueller has discharged many of his investigative team and DoJ lawyers are busy writing the report.
Related: Sen. Lindsey Graham says he supports bill to protect Robert Mueller
GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
11/15/18
The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate has blocked a bipartisan effort to pass legislation to protect the special counsel investigating ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's election campaign. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on November 14 said he wouldn't allow a vote on the legislation because he doesn't believe it is needed, despite Trump's replacement of Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week with an aide who has repeatedly criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. "There’s been no indication...that the investigation will not be allowed to finish, and it should be allowed to finish," McConnell said. Trump has frequently called the investigation a "hoax" and a "witch hunt" and repeatedly asserted he has the authority to fire Mueller.
Democrats in Congress, who gained control over the House of Representatives in elections last week, have been pushing for legislation to protect Mueller from being fired. Several Republicans in the Senate have allied with Democrats in demanding legislative protections for Mueller. Republican Senator Jeff Flake, a critic of Trump who is retiring at the end of the year, co-sponsored the legislation and joined Democrats in their bid to pass it in a unanimous consent vote on the Senate floor on November 14. "The president now has this investigation in his sights and we all know it," Flake said after McConnell blocked the move to unanimously approve the legislation. Flake said the bill has enough support in the Senate to pass and he and the bill's Democratic sponsors will try "again and again" to bring it up for a vote before Congress adjourns at the end of the year. Flake also threatened to block Senate votes on dozens of Trump's judicial nominees who are awaiting confirmation until the Senate votes on the Mueller protection bill.
Flake has threatened to hold up all Senate GOP judicial nominee confirmations. Even Trump Senate ally Sen. Lindsey Graham says this legislation is necessary. Mitch McConnell seems determined to do his part in forcing a Constitutional crisis when Trump orders his DoJ lackey Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to end the Mueller investigation. Former USAG Jeff Sessions was fired at this time (before the Mueller Report is finished and published) for a reason.
I have heard from friends in D.C. that the Mueller investigation is almost complete. Mr. Mueller has discharged many of his investigative team and DoJ lawyers are busy writing the report.
Related: Sen. Lindsey Graham says he supports bill to protect Robert Mueller