WASHINGTON, D. C. – Today, Attorney General Karl A. Racine joined Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in calling for the immediate appointment of an independent special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election.
The letter, sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of the United States Department of Justice, calls the firing of FBI Director James Comey during his ongoing investigation “a violation of the public trust.”