Top congressional Democrats say the Trump administration has misread federal law to justify the appointment of acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and therefore put forward a “fatally flawed” rationale for putting him in that position.

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the Office of Legal Counsel opinion released Wednesday is “fatally flawed” because it relies “exclusively” on the Vacancies Reform Act, while also and “twisting the plain language of the Constitution.”