Top Congressional Democrats are keeping the pressure on Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, most recently by asking the Justice Department if any top ethics officials have advised him to recuse himself from oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
The lawmakers want to know “immediately” from Lee Lofthus, the assistant attorney general for administration at the Justice Department, if he has advised Whitaker to rescue himself. Lofthus is also the department’s chief ethics officer.
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