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Democrats warn of potential constitutional crisis over memo
Democrats have sounded the alarm of a potential constitutional crisis in Washington, warning that President Donald Trump may use the release of a top-secret memo as grounds to fire his deputy attorney-general and undermine a special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election....
"To say that that’s the end of the investigation, that this is all Trump needs to fire Rosenstein or to fire Bob Mueller, I’ll just tell you this could precipitate a constitutional crisis,” Dick Durbin, the Senate minority whip, said on CNN. “If the House Republicans believe they’ve set the stage for this president to end this investigation, they are basically saying that in America one man is above the law.”
His Republicans colleagues were “bound and determined to continue to find ways to absolve this president from any responsibility”, Mr Durbin alleged. “And frankly it’s doing Putin’s work.”

https://www.ft.com/content/739ab486-...7-42f857ea9f09