{"id":37341,"date":"2018-07-26T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37341"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:12:50","slug":"republicans-launch-bid-to-impeach-us-dy-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/republicans-launch-bid-to-impeach-us-dy-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans launch bid to impeach US dy attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington<br \/>\nRepublicans have launched a bid to remove the Department of Justice official overseeing the Russia inquiry dogging Donald Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>House of Representatives conservatives have filed articles of impeachment in an effort to oust Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, BBC reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The measures were introduced on Wednesday evening by Representatives Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>They accuse him of stonewalling their inquiries, which his department denies.<\/p>\n<p>Impeachment would have to be approved by a majority in the House and backed by two-thirds of the US Senate to convict Rosenstein, which makes the plan a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks of becoming deputy attorney general in April 2017, Rosenstein found himself in controversy after a memo he wrote was cited as the reason for President Trump\u2019s decision to fire FBI chief James Comey, who was investigating Russia\u2019s alleged interference in the 2016 US elections.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenstein then appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to take over the inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Republicans have launched a bid to remove the Department of Justice official overseeing the Russia inquiry dogging Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. House of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37343,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37341\/revisions\/37343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}