Two senators are seeking to force the Trump Administration’s hand on appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate possible links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Former FBI Director James B. Comey had been leading the criminal investigation into those links, despite longstanding calls from Democrats to appoint an independent counsel.
Comey’s abrupt firing May 9 renewed those calls and led Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to announce during a May 10 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that she and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) intended to introduce “legislation to ensure that a truly independent prosecutor can be appointed.”
It’s not clear what that legislation ...
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