"Over the last three decades of your career at the Department of Justice, you have developed a reputation for integrity and impartiality," Schumer wrote to Rosenstein. "That reputation, along with the personal and public commitments you made to me and other Senators that you would be an independent, apolitical actor as Deputy Attorney General, earned you broad bipartisan support in your confirmation vote. And that reputation is now imperiled by your participation in the abrupt dismissal of FBI Director Comey."