Impeach Rosenstein? Still possible, Jordan says

WASHINGTON — Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and fellow U.S. House conservatives appear poised to force a floor vote on impeaching U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is supervising special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

At a gathering Tuesday of conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill, Jordan, R-Urbana, said “all options are on the table,” contending Rosenstein has declined to provide a House panel with thousands of pages of documents related to the FBI investigation into the private e-mails of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

“We’re considering everything because we’re not getting the response and information from the department that we should be getting,” Jordan said. “We’ve been very clear about that.”

The determination to press ahead is prompting criticism from some Republicans because Rosenstein announced Friday that a federal grand jury had indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials for hacking the emails in 2016 of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s campaign.

In addition, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have assailed President Donald Trump for failing at the Helsinki summit Monday to challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin on accusations that Russian operatives interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign.

“Attempting to impeach one of the people involved in indicting a dozen Russians for interfering with our election system, something that’s been proven by every U.S. intelligence agency Jordan