Outraged Democrats Have No Clear Plan to Deal With Comey Dismissal
The party could attempt to hold up Senate business, but they aren’t unified around any one course of action.
In the wake of President Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, congressional Democrats have outlined a list of demands, including an independent investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and a full accounting by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of the circumstances that led to Comey’s dismissal.
After news broke of the president’s decision on Tuesday, Senate Democrats expressed shock and outrage. House Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Americans would “rightly suspect that the decision to fire Director Comey was part of a cover-up” if the FBI’s investigation into election interference, including potential
