News is that Rod Rosenstein might be quitting. Or getting fired. Or both. Or neither. (It's confusing.) Presuming that there is some truth to the reporting, the departure of Rosenstein under any conditions puts a bullseye on the Mueller investigation. To this point, Mueller has been free to conduct his investigation without interference. He has leaked absolutely nothing to the press, so we don't know how much he knows about Trump's criminal misdeeds over the past 30 years.
There are - allegedly - Republicans who care about the Republic more than the Republican Party. The timing of Rosenstein's departure is interesting. It would take a single member of the Senate Judiciary Committee or two Senate Republicans to require that Trump name a neutral, career professional to replace Rosenstein. That requirement is linked to any movement on Trump's Supreme Court picks. Now, it could be (should be) that Kavanaugh is toast. That would mean that the Federalist Society would need to crank out another Alito clone ASAP, before the Republicans possibly lose the gavel in November (actually January when the new Senate would be seated). To do this, they will need a unified caucus.
Replacing Rosenstein while trying to get a Supreme Court nominee approved gives the "Anti-Trump" faction (is it two people now?) leverage to protect Mueller's investigation.
Every indication we have so far is that they will fail to exploit their leverage.
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