ForReal, Firing Mueller and Rosenstein won’t save Trump’s closest allies
Trump’s inner circle would still be in federal crosshairs.
By Zachary Fryer-Biggs Zach@Vox.com Updated Apr 11, 2018, 2:09pm EDT
Special counsel Robert Mueller (L) arrives at the US Capitol for closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 21, 2017, in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
President Trump may think he can end all his growing legal problems by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller. He can’t.
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“I’m not even sure it is correct to say Mueller is ‘working with’ these offices,” Christopher Slobogin, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School, told me. “It may be more accurate to say he’s offloaded certain cases that are not directly related to the Russia probe to prosecutorial entities that are well-equipped to handle them.”
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