WASHINGTON, June 21 — US Attorney General

US Attorney General William Barr fired a federal prosecutor investigating US President Donald Trump's lawyer. — Reuters pic

 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 today.

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. — Reuters