Nov 07, 2018 · Updated Nov 7, 2018 at 3:26pm Getty Jeff Sessions stepped down as attorney general. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped down Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter. Sessions’s...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions submitted a resignation letter to Donald Trump, which said it came at "your request".
President Trump took to Twitter to announce that Chief of Staff Matthew G. Whitaker will replace Sessions as an interim.
A list of potential candidates has arisen as people try to predict who Trump will select as a permanent replacement for Sessions.
Another reason insiders are generally happy with Strange's appointment? He's a mix of Sessions — who is an ace at delivering firebrand messages to the right — and Alabama's senior senator, Shelby (R), who prefers to work behind the scenes to get things done.
Shortly after getting elected, Strange helped negotiate a settlement from the 2010 BP oil spill.
He'll face a primary in June 2018 and an election in November.
Bentley is facing potential impeachment and a criminal investigation after a former top police officer accused him of a sensational affair with a political staffer, raising questions of whether Bentley used state resources to carry it out. (Bentley has denied the affair but apologized for making inappropriate comments to a woman after a lurid conversation was caught on audiotape.)
Bentley is term-limited, which means there will be an open governor's race in 2018 no matter his legal standing. Everyone had expected Strange to be a top candidate, but now the field opens up. And the likeliest beneficiary of that is the head of the Alabama Senate, Sen. Del Marsh (R), who is widely seen as wanting to run for governor. Suspended state chief justice Roy Moore is another possibility.