Mueller Owes the Country Some Answers
As the 2020 election approaches, the public should know where the special counsel’s probe stands.
It’s time.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caused a bit of a fuss last week by downplaying impeachment as a potential resolution to the various investigations into President Donald Trump. I agree with political scientist Scott Lemieux that she’s basically right: A partisan impeachment is only worthwhile if the evidence really leaves no other option, and it’s proper for the speaker to at least feign reluctance to take such a drastic step.
Of course, the big thing everyone is waiting on is a report from special counsel Robert Mueller, who has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. It’s not clear what that report will look like, as Marty Lederman explains. One interpretation some experts favor is that Mueller already has written his “report” in the form of indictments and other public statements, and in fact the combined force of those disclosures has already been pretty devastating for the president. But there are signs that there’s more to come. And for every hint that Mueller is ready to wrap up, there’s another that he still has plenty of work to do.