A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday is poised to offer an unusual face-off: Sen. Adam B. Schiff, who says he’s being targeted by the president for political retaliation, asking questions of the attorney general whose department would sign off on any charges.
Schiff and the other committee Democrats criticized President Donald Trump’s calls last month to indict Schiff and others, as well as an actual indictment of former FBI Director James B. Comey, as brazen use of the Justice Department’s power to intimidate political foes.
“This is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Nixon had his enemies list, but it wasn’t so exhaustive and blatant as this,” Schiff said in a television interview about a Trump social media post that demanded his prosecution. “It’s an effort to try to silence and intimidate people, but I refuse to be silenced or intimidated.”
