In a highly unusual move, the state of Maryland will ask a judge on Tuesday to declare that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is the acting U.S. attorney general, according to a new report from NBC News. If the judge does issue such an order Rosenstein would replace Matt Whitaker, who was appointed to that…
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would “certainly prefer not†to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He also said that he might decide to delay a meeting with Rosenstein, the #2 person in the Justice Department. According to the president, Rosenstein has denied making the comments that were attributed to him in a…
Needless to say yesterday was a YUGE news day in Washington, D.C., and it was hard to stay on top of every story that broke during the day. One important thing happened that seemed to get lost in the shuffle — the head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) sent a letter to the…
On Monday we reported that members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. This is of course an unprecedented move, and it is also a sign of desperation on the part of the congressional allies of President Donald Trump. According to the Washington Post, the…
You don’t get to be Deputy Attorney General of the United States by being dumb. And Rod Rosenstein just proved how really smart he is. Rosenstein recently communicated to President Trump that he is not a “target” of any federal criminal investigation Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime attorney and “fixer.” Trump has been very angry ever…
