Impediments to Trump Firing the Special Counsel

Legality and Effects of Attempts to Fire the Special Counsel

ACS-CREW Report: Why Trump Can't (Easily) Remove Mueller and What Happens If He Tries – December 6, 2017

ACSblog: Why Trump Can’t (Easily) Remove Mueller—and What Happens If He Tries

Could President Trump Fire Robert Mueller? He May Try But It Won’t Be Easy, USA Today.

ACSblog: If the Rumors are True: President Trump and the Firing of Bob Mueller

ACS Briefing Call: All The President's Men? Sessions, Mueller, and the Rule of Law, July 31, 2017

 

Options in the Event Mueller is Fired

ACSblog: Plan A and Plan B if Donald Trump Fires Special Counsel Mueller

ACSblog: Nobody is above the law, not even the President

ACSblog: Affirming the Rule of Law

 

Analysis of Different Approaches to Firing or Limiting Mueller

Donald Trump’s 5 Reasons to Fire Rod Rosenstein Reveal True Aim: Obstructing Robert Mueller, USA Today

Why Sessions Is Right to Stand Up to Trump, The New York Times

Love him or hate him, Jeff Sessions is why Mueller's Russia probe is still on track, USA Today

The Four Threats to Robert Mueller, The New York Times

Robert Mueller in the Cross Hairs, The New York Times

 

DOJ Succession Issues

ACSblog: A Long Winding Path to Rosenstein's Replacement

It Won’t Be Easy for Trump to Replace Sessions with Pruitt, Politico

 

Indictments Make Firing More Difficult

Bob Mueller Is Not Playing Around, Politico

 

Trump Threats to Mueller

ACSblog: Another Saturday Night Massacre?

Trump and his Allies are Laying the Groundwork for a Saturday Night Massacre, The Washington Post

ACS Briefing Call: Crossing the Rubicon: President Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Russia Investigation, April 13, 2018

Trump Hasn’t Fired Mueller – Yet, The New York Times