02-09-2018, 03:59 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
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WASHINGTON — Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.
Ms. Brand’s profile had risen in part because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who has called the investigation a witch hunt, has considered firing Mr. Rosenstein.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/u...epartment.html
It seems a highly respected DOJ lawyer has had enough of Trump anti-DOJ's antics and wasn't fond of the idea of being putting on the spot to fire Mueller.
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