Republican Rep. Justin Amash on Wednesday said special counsel Robert Mueller passed the baton to Congress to remove President Trump from office.
“The ball is in our court, Congress,” the Michigan lawmaker said Wednesday, moments after Mueller spoke publicly about his nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
In his statement, Mueller said charging the president with a crime was “not an option we could consider” because of long-standing Justice Department policy.
“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime,” Mueller said.
Mueller, who announced he was resigning from the Justice Department, said he would not be making any additional statements beyond his 448-page report and did not intend to testify to Congress.
Amash recently became the first Republican in Congress to back impeachment. On Tuesday, he slammed Attorney General William Barr over his handling of the release of Mueller’s report, accusing the top Justice Department official of misleading the public about Mueller’s findings.
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