The Republican leadership should get a bill introduced on Wednesday to the Senate floor that would limit President Donald Trump's ability to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, according to The Hill.
"Why don't we head it off at the pass and move bipartisan legislation that's been introduced this morning through the Judiciary Committee, which I'm told [chairman Charles] Grassley is seriously considering, and on to the floor of the Senate," Schumer said, adding that the Iowa Republican senator should "schedule a hearing and markup on this bill, to report it out of his committee."
Schumer added: "We must be sure not to water it down with amendments or accept changes that would render it useless. I urge [Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell, R-Ky., to then take that bill and put it on the floor where we can debate it and pass it."
Two Republicans (Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Thom Tillis of North Carolina) and two Democrats (Cory Booker of New Jersey and Chris Coon of Delaware) introduced the bill on Wednesday aimed at protecting Mueller, according to UPI.
The bill would mandate that any special counsel get an "expedited judicial review" within 10 days of being fired to check if it was for a "good cause" and reinstate the counsel if it was not, The Hill reported.
It would also codify rules that only a senior Justice Department official can fire a special counsel by giving the reason for termination in writing.
The new legislation comes after Trump lashed out at Mueller following an FBI raid on the offices and hotel room of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
Grassley told Fox Business News that he still has confidence in Mueller.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman added that "the president ought to have confidence in Mueller, and I think it would be suicide for the president to want to talk about firing Mueller."
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