So the President would maintain the power to remove the special counsel. We would just want to make sure that it had merit and had that back in the judicial process. And if there is a termination, we just want to make sure through judicial review it was warranted.
Senator Thom Tillis explains the purpose of a new Senate bill that would allow special counsels to challenge their firing in court.
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