Impeaching U.S. Attorney General Barr 'waste of time', top Democrat Nadler says

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr deserves to be impeached over the firing of a federal prosecutor investigating President Donald Trump’s lawyer but the effort would be a “waste of time,” a leading Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday.

Jerrold Nadler, the House Judiciary chairman who helped lead Trump’s impeachment hearings last year, told CNN’s “State of the Union” the Republican-led Senate would block any such effort.

“I think he deserves impeachment. He certainly deserves impeachment. But again, that’s a waste of time because the Republicans in the Senate won’t look at that and we have, we have other ways of getting at this,” Nadler said.