Pressure builds for Durham to ditch Russia probe

Asked at a news conference last December about whether Josh Durham was subject to the same oversight as other Justice Department prosecutors, Merrick Garland didn’t answer directly. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The acquittal of the defendant in the highest-profile case brought by special counsel John Durham intensified calls for him to wrap up his investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into Donald Trump’s Russia ties, but there are few signs that the Justice Department is pressuring Durham to pull the plug.

Durham’s semi-annual budget report released Friday showed that his office spent almost $2 million in the six-month period ending in March,

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