'Chuck, this is serious': Patrick Leahy calls for 'urgent' hearing on White House attacks on DOJ, FBI
by Kimberly Leonard
| March 17, 2018 04:01 PM
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is urging Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to schedule an "urgent" Judiciary Committee hearing on the Trump administration's "escalating politicized attacks" of the Justice Department and the FBI.
“During my four decades in the Senate, I have never before seen our nation’s career, apolitical law enforcement officials so personally and publicly maligned by politicians — indeed, by our president," he wrote in a note alongside the letter, which was initially dated Jan. 30 but made public Saturday.
The letter contained a hand-written note, "Chuck, this is serious."
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