Attorney General Jeff Sessions and House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday defended Rod Rosenstein after a handful of right-wing Republican lawmakers who zealously back President Trump moved to impeach the deputy AG.

“My deputy, Rod Rosenstein, is highly capable. I have the highest confidence in him,” Sessions said during an appearance in Boston, before essentially thumbing his nose at the 11 Republicans who launched the effort.

“What I would like Congress to do is to focus on some of the legal challenges that are out there,” including illegal immigration, he added, Reuters reported.

Rosenstein’s job appeared at least temporarily safe despite the impeachment effort., headed by Reps. Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio.

“Do I support impeachment of Rod Rosenstein? No, I do not,” Ryan said during his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.

Democrats scoffed at the effort to fire the man supervising special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling and potential collusion with Trump’s campaign.

“The fact that only 11 House Republicans signed onto the articles of impeachment against Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein speaks volumes. I don’t believe this will ever get a vote,” said Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.).

In a joint statement, the top Democrats on the House Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform and Intelligence committees called the move a “panicked and dangerous attempt to undermine an ongoing criminal investigation in an effort to protect President Trump as the walls are closing in around him and his associates.”

So far, the special counsel has charged 32 people and three companies.

That includes four Trump campaign advisers and 12 Russian intelligence officers.

Even Fox News commentator “Judge” Andrew Napolitano, another ardent Trump supporter, called the effort spearheaded by the uber-conservative Freedom Caucus “wrong and baseless, embarrassing for everybody involved,” on the network.

Norm Eisen, ethics czar in the Obama administration, slammed Meadows and Jordan, and called on voters to call their GOP reps to tell them to leave Mueller’s probe alone.

“Trumps’s Congressional coverup crew moved to impeach Rosenstein. Now it’s up to you to protect the man who protects the Mueller investigation. Please call your GOP representative to say you oppose impeachment of Rod Rosenstein,” he tweeted.

Meadows could have forced a vote on impeachment — but had little support in the House.

The move late Wednesday came after months of criticism aimed at the Justice Department — and the Russia investigation in particular — from Trump and his Republican allies in Congress.

Trump has fumed about Mueller’s probe and repeatedly called it a “witch hunt,” a refrain echoed by some of the lawmakers and even John Bolton, the president’s national security adviser.

Rosenstein, a Republican appointed by Trump, vigorously defended the department during recent congressional hearings earlier this month, insisting politics played no role in Mueller’s probe.

The five articles charge Rosenstein with “high crimes and misdemeanors” for failing to produce information to lawmakers, even though the department has already provided them with more than 800,000 documents, and of signing off on what some Republicans say was improper surveillance of a Trump adviser, Carter Page.