Noah Feldman, Columnist

Rosenstein Must Go, So Mueller Can Stay

It’s a gamble, but it’s the least-bad option for continuing the Trump investigation.

September 21, 2018 at 9:41 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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The revelation on Friday that the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, considered wearing a wire to record President Donald Trump and discussed trying to get the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him is more than merely astonishing. It has consequences.

In the first place, it could give Trump an excuse to fire Rosenstein, which would possibly precipitate a crisis regarding the fate of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in Trump’s election.