Q, Mueller is investigating HRC, and Schneiderman’s removal is extremely relevant as he would have attempted to asset state jurisdiction over Mueller’s Federal investigation of HRC, based on her domicile in the SDNY/theory that the crimes were committed in SDNY. He would have shielded her as he did with NXIVM.

Rachel Brand was dismissed for the same reason. If RR were to recuse himself or be fired, she replaces him, and her position on crime is to defer to states: https://www.heritage.org/report/making-it-federal-case-inside-view-the-pressures-tofederalize-crime