James Comey; Robert Mueller; Donald Trump (Credit: Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla/Staff/Alex Wong / Staff/Darren McCollester /Stringer) While special counsel Robert Mueller investigates whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, legal experts and scholars at the Brookings Institute have determined that the president likely broke the law by firing former FBI director James Comey and, as a result, could be impeached by Congress. A new report from Brookings analysts Barry Berke, Noah Bookbinder and Norman Eisen found that Trump “likely obstructed justice” when he impeded the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russia’s election interference by firing Comey. “Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction.

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