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Q: Rep. Eric Swalwell Eric Michael SwalwellDem generation gap widens Dem lawmaker slams Fox News: 'We’re battling misinformation' Rosenstein unaware of ‘disqualifying’ conflict of interest for Mueller MORE (D-Calif.) said on Monday that it makes him sick to hear Republican lawmakers have begun drafting a resolution calling to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod Jay RosensteinRosenstein asks federal prosecutors for help in review of Kavanaugh documents: report Allies seek to defend Jim Jordan from Ohio State allegations Jordan denies knowing of alleged Ohio State abuse, calls timing of claims 'suspect' MORE. 
  
 “It's sickening to hear that ... there are no limits, or no length, that they are not willing to go to just torch the Department of Justice,” Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN. 
  
 The impeachment documents, which have been spearheaded by Rep. Mark Meadows Mark Randall MeadowsFormer OSU wrestler defends Jordan against allegations Dems call for release of Strzok interview transcript Freedom Caucus says it's behind Jordan '100 percent' MORE (R-N.C.) and other conservatives, make a number of charges against Rosenstein, the top Justice Department official overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. 
  
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 The charges include allegations that Rosenstein stalled in producing documents about congressional investigations into government misconduct, violated federal law when he refused to comply with a congressional subpoena concerning Congress’s efforts to get documents about the FBI’s surveillance during the 2016 election and failed to enforce laws and protocols. 
  
 “Voters will have their own say at the ballot box this November and I don’t think they’re going to look too kindly on people who think their job is to protect the president rather than to protect our democracy,” Swalwell said of the GOP’s efforts against Rosenstein. 
  
 Rosenstein became a popular target for Republicans trying to discredit Mueller’s investigation after Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ letter listing subpoenaed reporters did not name NYT journalist DOJ unveils proposal giving feds more power to limit opioid production Senate confirms Trump DOJ nominee with ties to Russian bank MORE recused himself from overseeing the investigation. 
  
 President Trump Donald John TrumpEx-Russia ambassador: Trump has done more damage to NATO in months than Russia has in decades Trump takes credit for increased defense spending by NATO allies, but says 'it isn't nearly enough' Trump questions how Russia probe can 'proceed' given FBI agent's private comments MORE has called Mueller’s investigation a “witch hunt” and repeatedly denied there was collusion between Russia and his campaign. 
  
 At the moment, there is no sign that Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanOvernight Defense: Trump roils NATO on summit's first day | Trump, Merkel relationship sinks lower | House, Senate kick off defense bill talks | Senators symbolically rebuke Trump on national security tariffs Hillicon Valley: Hacker tried to sell military docs on dark web | Facebook fined over Cambridge Analytica | US closer to lifting ZTE ban | Trump, Obama lose followers in Twitter purge | DOJ weighs appeal on AT&T; merger FBI agent set for public House grilling MORE (R-Wis.) and other House leaders will act on the measure against Rosenstein. ||||| CLOSE President Donald Trump is passing up a chance to say whether he will fire special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He says there's been speculation that he would get rid of them but "they're still here." (April 18) AP 
  
 Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (Photo: Jarrad Henderson, USA TODAY) 
  
 WASHINGTON — Some conservative House allies of President Trump threatened to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — invoking an extreme punishment that has not been carried out against an executive branch employee in 122 years. 
  
 The Republicans who raised the specter of impeachment — including Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan — threatened a measure that the Constitution says is for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." 
  
 Their complaint against Rosenstein is that he has been too slow in producing documents they requested involving the Justice Department's Russia investigation and its inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of State. 
  
 Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians in the 2016 election — an inquiry Trump and his allies in Congress want to end. 
  
 "When you impeach an executive official, it's frankly branding them as a criminal," said Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore. "It's not meant to use to go after officials who don't share your policy views or your political goals." 
  
 The previous executive branch official — other than a president — who was impeached by the House was Secretary of War William Belknap, who was charged in 1876 with bribery "for accepting payments in exchange for making official appointments," according to the House Office of the Historian. He was acquitted by the Senate a few months later. 
  
 If members of congressional committees believe Rosenstein or other executive branch officials are resisting their legitimate requests for information, the proper recourse is to issue a subpoena, then pursue a contempt of Congress case against them if they don't comply, Tiefer said. 
  
 To hold someone in contempt, a majority of committee members must vote for a contempt citation, which must then be approved by the full House. If approved, the contempt citation is referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who brings the case to a grand jury for action. 
  
 "A contempt case would end up in the courts where the House Republicans may well lose," Tiefer said. "Impeachment doesn't go to the courts." 
  
 "I don't think it will go anywhere," said Eric Herzik, chairman of the political science department at the University of Nevada-Reno. "I don't think leadership will ever bring it to the House floor." 
  
 Though going after Rosenstein might appeal to hard-core Trump voters, it could backfire with most of the electorate and hurt moderate Republicans in swing districts in the congressional elections in November, he said. 
  
 Even if the House impeached Rosenstein, the closely divided Senate would never convict him, Herzik said. It takes a two-thirds majority to convict someone in a Senate impeachment trial. Republicans hold a slim 51-49 majority, and many of the Republicans would side with Democrats against conviction, the professor said. 
  
 "I'm sure (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell is rolling his eyes and looking at (House Speaker) Paul Ryan and saying, 'Get your guys under control,' " Herzik said. 
  
 House conservatives "are having fun talking about" impeachment, said Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College in California. "But if they actually pulled the trigger, it might blow up in their face," he said. "If they moved forward and had impeachment hearings and an investigation, they could turn over some rocks that don't make the Trump administration look good." 
  
 GOP House leaders have said little about conservatives' calls to impeach Rosenstein. 
  
 "I think the leadership is silent because they don't want to anger the president," Pitney said. "The basic idea by the conservatives is to distract attention from Trump's troubles and reframe the debate." 
  
 The Justice Department released to Congress copies of former FBI director James Comey's memos, then agreed to release more documents to the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees investigating alleged pro-Clinton, anti-Trump bias by the FBI and DOJ. 
  
 Tiefer said he doubts that pressure from House conservatives affected what the Justice Department is releasing, since those decisions are made by career prosecutors. 
  
 "But the pace of release may well be increased by House Republicans' pressure," he said. He said the Justice Department has probably been reluctant to immediately release documents that could affect its Russia investigation. 
  
 Tiefer said conservative threats to impeach Rosenstein could set a dangerous precedent that may be turned against Republicans if Democrats win control of the House in the election in November. 
  
 "Then we could hear about the impeachment of (EPA Director) Scott Pruitt and (Education Secretary) Betsy DeVos," he said, referring to two Trump Cabinet members who are extremely unpopular with Democrats. "House Republicans should be careful what they wish for." 
  
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Democrats warned such a move could be coming. Now, House Republicans allied with President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's overseeing Robert Mueller's investigation into links between Trump's campaign and Russia, the Washington Post reports. "It's sickening," Eric Swalwell, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, tells CNN, per the Hill. "There are no limits, or no length, that they are not willing to go to just torch the Department of Justice." Some Republicans see it another way. Trump ally Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, says the impeachment articles, mentioning Rosenstein's delay in turning over documents to congressional investigators, are "a last resort option, if the Department of Justice fails to respond" to further requests. "My frustrations about their inability to respond to simple requests could warrant further action," Meadows tells the Post. Impeachment, however, is no easy route. If approved by the House Judiciary Committee, impeachment would require a majority vote in the House and a two-thirds vote in a Senate trial. Meadows says lawmakers might bring the articles to an immediate House vote, with approval from speaker Paul Ryan. But just last month, Ryan said Mueller and Rosenstein "should be allowed to do their jobs." Still, the impeachment articles may do more than signal "the growing chasm" between Republican leaders and rank-and-file members, per the Post. Experts tell USA Today that the speed at which the DOJ has released documents to Congress may have already been hastened by Republican pressure, which reaches a new level with Meadows' effort.