Senate Committee Will Consider Bill to Protect Mueller … in Two Weeks. Cool, No Need to Rush It or Anything, Guys

April 12, 201811:14 AM

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley at the Capitol on Feb. 14. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images

On Wednesday news broke that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has decided he is willing to bring a bill protecting special counsel Robert Mueller from firing to a vote. While it’s not at all certain that the bill will ever become law even if it passes through committee, this was welcome news if only as a sign that at least one Senate Republican has decided to take the ol’ constitutional division of powers seriously.

Well, not too seriously, we’ve now learned:

Cool. Cool cool. It makes sense to do it like this, especially when you see what an urgent issue Judiciary will be considering at its next scheduled hearing, on April 18:

Hearing title: Oversight of the U.S. patent and trademark office.

It’s important to have priorities.

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