11/8/2018

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional Democrats on Thursday [11-8-17] demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump’s ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation of Sessions on Wednesday, a day after elections in which his fellow Republicans lost control of the House but increased their majority in the Senate. In a letter bit.ly/2DaU1nl saying the move placed the country ‘in the throes of a constitutional crisis,’ House Judiciary Committee Democrats demanded action from the panel’s Republican chairman, Bob Goodlatte, and called for bipartisan legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from any effort to stymie the probe. A spokeswoman for Goodlatte had no comment on the letter.”

David Morgan, “Democrats seek hearings on Trump’s ouster of Sessions,” Reuters, November 8, 2018 9:17 am