Article snippet: Legislation protecting special counsel MORE was blocked on Wednesday for a second time in the past month. Sen. MORE (D-N.J.), tried to get consent to schedule the long-stalled legislation for a vote. Flake questioned why his colleagues weren't "up in arms" after a string of tweets from MORE bashing Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. "With the president tweeting on a regular basis, a daily basis, that the special counsel is conflicted, that he is leading so-called 12 angry Democrats and demeaning and ridiculing him in every way, to be so sanguine about the chances of him being fired is folly for us," Flake said. Trump in a tweet hours before Flake's request blasted Mueller's probe into Russian election interference and possible collusion between the president's campaign and Moscow as the "angry Mueller gang of Dems" and exclaimed that it is "our Joseph McCarthy era." But GOP Sen. MORE (Utah) objected to voting on the legislation, arguing the bill had constitutional issues. "As Justice Scalia explains, we cannot convert an office like this one ... without creating a de facto fourth branch of government fundamentally undermining the principles of the separation of powers that is so core to our liberty," Lee said. Flake pledged that they would come back to the Senate floor to try to set up the bill for a vote again. Under the upper chamber's rules, senators can go to the floor to request a vote or passage of any bill... Link to the full article to read more