WASHINGTON (JTA) — Speaking to the Anti-Defamation League, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general at the center of President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with his Justice Department, extolled the rule of law. Rosenstein’s speech to the group, which itself has an adversarial relationship with the Trump administration, was on the surface a paean to Trump’s…
Alan Dershowitz speculated on CNN Tuesday that Rod Rosenstein, the embattled Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice, could recuse himself from the Russia investigation, the Washington Examiner reported. Dershowitz suggested that the case for Rosenstein’s recusal after the publication of 49 questions Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller wants to ask Donald Trump as…
Jews love to argue — and the pronunciation over common last names ending in “stein” is a classic example: Should it be pronounced “steen” or “stine”? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the ongoing debate even more confusing on Tuesday when he announced at a Newseum event that there is no definitively correct way to…
Rod Rosenstein reportedly saved his job by reminding President Trump last week that he’s not a “target” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — for now anyway. The assistant attorney general may have bought himself some breathing room by calming down the mercurial man in the White House, Bloomberg reported. Trump had been raging about…
Two of President Trump’s backers in Congress have threatened Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general running the Russia investigation, with impeachment or contempt of Congress if he did not give them documents they want, according to the Washington Post. Rosenstein met Monday with Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio, both Republican…
Former FBI director James Comey harshly criticized Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in a wide-ranging interview Sunday in which he also revealed his personal conversations with President Trump, about whom he believes that it is “possible” that the Russian government have material that could be used for blackmail. Rosenstein wrote a memo in May 2017…
Rod Rosenstein recently met with Donald Trump at the White House, stoking fears that the president might fire him, POLITICO reported. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is overseeing Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s investigation into criminal activity by members of Trump’s campaign team. The meeting, according to a source, concerned a matter that traditionally would…
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who is still in contact with allies and employees of President Trump, is proposing a plan to save the presidency from the probe into Russian election interference by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller and signed off…
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