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Newspaper Page TextWASHINGTON/POLITICS The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Thursday, November 15, 2018 5A Flake vows to oppose judges unless Mueller bill gets vote BY MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON — Repub lican Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday that he won’t vote to confirm judicial nomi nees unless GOP leaders hold a vote on legislation to protect special counsel Robert Muel ler from being fired. Flake of Arizona and Dem ocratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware went to the Senate floor on Wednesday and tried to bring the legislation up for a vote. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell objected. McConnell has said that the legislation is unnec essary because he believes Mueller won’t be fired. Flake and Coons called for the vote in the wake of Attorney General Jeff Ses sions’ departure. President Donald Trump pushed Ses sions out last week and tem porarily replaced him with a loyalist, Matt Whitaker, who has criticized the Muel ler investigation. The special counsel’s probe is investigat ing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and Russian ties to Trump’s Republican campaign. “This is not a moment for our leadership to be weak or irresolute or compromised in any way,” Flake said, adding that “the president now has this investigation in his sights and we all know it. ” Flake, who retires in Janu ary, said he wouldn’t vote to confirm judges on the Senate floor or to advance them out of committee until there was a vote on the Mueller bill. He said he’d con tinue to come to the Senate floor to call for one. McConnell objected without comment. But he said earlier Wednes day that he’s never heard anyone at the White House suggest they want to shut the investigation down. “I think it’s in no danger, so I don’t think any legislation is necessary,” McConnell said. The move by Flake and Coons comes more than a year after the bipartisan leg islation was introduced and underscores the deep con cerns many lawmakers have long had over Trump’s com ments about Mueller’s inves tigation. Trump has called the probe a “hoax” and lev eled personal criticism at the former FBI director. Those concerns were only ampli fied after Trump appointed Whitaker as acting attorney general. Whitaker is now oversee ing the probe, which had previously been overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein told Congress that he saw no reason to fire Mueller. Sessions had recused him self from overseeing Muel ler because he worked on Trump’s campaign, which infuriated Trump. Several other Republicans have said they would vote for the bill. They include Senate Judi ciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and the legislation’s GOP co sponsors, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis. Democrats, who will take the House majority in Janu ary, have also said shield ing Mueller’s investigation will be one of their top pri orities. Along with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, they have called for the special counsel bill to be added to a year-end spending bill that must pass in December to avoid a par tial government shutdown. The bipartisan legisla tion to protect Mueller was approved by the Senate Judi ciary Committee in April. It would give special counsel a 10-day window to seek expe dited judicial review of a fir ing and put into law existing Justice Department regula tions that a special counsel can only be fired for good cause. Flake White House believes it has ‘broad discretion’ on press access Associated Press WASHINGTON — Presi dent Donald Trump’s admin istration contends it has “broad discretion” to regu late press access to the White House as it fends off a legal challenge from CNN and other outlets over the revoca tion of journalist Jim Acosta’s “hard pass.” In a legal filing ahead of a Wednesday hearing on CNN’s request for a tem porary restraining order to restore Acosta’s access, the government argues it “was lawful” to punish Acosta for his behavior during a conten tious Trump press confer ence last week. It rejects the idea that Acosta was “otherwise eligi ble” for White House access, saying: “The President and his designees in the White House Press Office have exercised their discretion not to engage with him and, by extension, to no longer grant him on-demand access to the White House complex so that he can attempt to interact with the President or White House officials.” Trump himself, in an interview published Wednes day, was uncertain how the court fight would end, say ing, “We’ll see how the court rules. Is it freedom of the press when somebody comes in and starts screaming ques tions and won’t sit down?” Trump told The Daily Caller that “guys like Acosta” were “bad for the country. ... He’s just an average guy who’s a grandstander who’s got the guts to stand up and shout.” The White House’s expla nations for why it seized Acosta’s “hard pass,” which grants reporters as-needed access to the 18-acre com plex, have shifted over the last week. Acosta has repeat edly clashed with Trump and press secretary Sarah Hucka- bee Sanders in briefings over the last two years. The Associated Press joined with a group of 12 other news organizations planning to file an amicus brief in the case Wednesday. “Whether the news of the day concerns national secu rity, the economy, or the environment, reporters cov ering the White House must remain free to ask questions. It is imperative that indepen dent journalists have access to the President and his activities, and that journalists are not barred for arbitrary reasons,” the law firm Bal lard Spahr said in a state ment on behalf of the news organizations. Fox News President Jay Wallace said Secret Service passes for working White House journalists “should never be weaponized.” Fox News was one of the organi zations in the amicus filing. 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