Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plans to resign on May 11, ending a controversial tenure in which he appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller and took actions that won him praise — and anger — from both the right and left.
“The Department of Justice made rapid progress in achieving the administration’s law enforcement priorities,” Rosenstein, 54, said in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump on April 29. “We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls.“
Rod Rosenstein
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Rosenstein, a veteran federal prosecutor who served under presidents ...