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Trump Assails Justice Dept., Siding With House Conservatives in Dispute

[ad_1] But those efforts have not quieted two of Mr. Trump’s most loyal supporters on Capitol Hill, Representatives Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio. In an unusual show of defiance of their committee chairman, they have insisted the agreement is not good enough and that they need access to an unredacted version of an August 2017 memo outlining the scope of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. Democrats fear that the requests — many of which call on the department to ignore longstanding policy about what it shares with Congress — are merely meant to provide Mr. Trump with a reason to fire Mr. Mueller. Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said the latest Republican efforts were “clearly trying to sabotage” the Mueller investigation and court a confrontation with Mr. Rosenstein. “All of this noise is aimed at undermining the special counsel’s work as the investigation closes in on the president,” Mr. Nadler said in a ...

Justice Dept. Won’t Be Extorted, Rosenstein Warns Republicans

[ad_1] “If we’re going to accuse somebody of wrongdoing, we have to have admissible evidence and credible witnesses,” Mr. Rosenstein said. “We need to prepare to prove our case in court. And we have to affix our signature to the charging document.” Mr. Meadows fired back, accusing Mr. Rosenstein of stonewalling and calling on him to resign. “If he believes being asked to do his job is ‘extortion,’ then Rod Rosenstein should step aside and allow us to find a new deputy attorney general — preferably one who is interested in transparency,” Mr. Meadows, the chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said in a statement. The draft impeachment articles are unlikely to advance through the House, where the Judiciary Committee and possibly the full chamber would have a say. But they represent the most explicit threat yet to Mr. Rosenstein by lawmakers with close ties to Mr. Trump. The lawmakers have been threatening to impose sanctions on or even impeach Mr. Rosenstein, 53, on and off...