Under federal law, only the AG can fire the Special Counsel. With Sessions recusal, it's Rosenstein.

[kpete]

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See 600.7(d)
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2016-title28-vol2/pdf/CFR-2016-title28-vol2-part600.pdf


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[NightWatcher]

1. And if he refuses, trump can fire him and promote acting AG's until one agrees to do so.

Isn't that what Nixon did?

[jberryhill]

4. Yes, until he got to Robert Bork

[MoonRiver]

2. Can Chump fire Rosenstein and insert somebody else?

[bettyellen]

6. Trump can change the law itself and then fire Mueller

[MoonRiver]

7. He can change the law without Congress?

[H2O Man]

8. No, he can't

do that. However, he could pull a Nixon and keeping replacing AAGs unyil, as noted above, he found his Bork.

[bettyellen]

10. IDK that was going around from a lawyer then- I hope you're right!

I thought it was becasue it's a rule and not a law?

[bettyellen]

11. He could order "special regulations repealed" - according to Matthew Miller on Madddow

[FarPoint]

3. I agree...

But the dog gone cable news rating hounds won't bring out this major detail.

[dhill926]

5. this whole thing has the sulfurous smell of Bannon...

all over it. Continue creating chaos....

[H2O Man]

9. Yep.

[blueinredohio]

12. If he would keep firing people until someone

fires Mueller surely people will see there's something going on