WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation to make it harder for President Trump to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller ran into legal hurdles Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Four leading scholars testifying before the committee were divided on whether the Senate’s proposals to protect Mueller’s Russia probe were even legal.
Akhil Reed Amar, a professor at Yale Law School and a Democrat, informed the committee that its attempt to clip Trump’s wings would not stand up in court.
“I must sadly report as a scholar who has studied the Constitution I believe the bills in their current forms are unwise and unconstitutional. It gives me no pleasure to say this,” said Amar, who suggested instead a new bipartisan senatorial oversight panel. – READ MORE
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