Nov 07, 2018 · Jeff Sessions, once one of President Trump’s most loyal and trusted advisers before infuriating Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation, has resigned as attorney general at the ...
Nov 08, 2018 · Mr. Sessions was the first senator to endorse Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign. But his recusal as attorney general from the Russia inquiry proved to be his undoing.
Feb 15, 2019 · The attorney general’s views on race and religion are described as reprehensible. Sessions “believed that Islam — inherently — advocated extremism” and …
Jul 25, 2017 · Why President Trump suddenly hates his attorney general The Trump-Sessions feud isn’t about personalities. It’s about whether the …
Jeff SessionsIn office February 9, 2017 – November 7, 2018PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyDana Boente (acting) Rod RosensteinPreceded byLoretta Lynch33 more rows
Matthew WhitakerPreceded byJeff SessionsSucceeded byWilliam BarrChief of Staff to the United States Attorney GeneralIn office September 22, 2017 – November 7, 201820 more rows
Merrick Brian GarlandMerrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American attorney and jurist serving as the 86th United States attorney general since March 2021....Merrick GarlandIncumbentAssumed office March 11, 2021PresidentJoe BidenDeputyLisa Monaco23 more rows
Marci WhitakerMatthew Whitaker / Spouse
As the chief officer of the Department of Justice, the attorney general enforces federal laws, provides legal counsel in federal cases, interprets the laws that govern executive departments, heads federal jails and penal institutions, and examines alleged violations of federal laws.
William BarrPresidentGeorge H. W. BushPreceded byDonald B. AyerSucceeded byGeorge J. Terwilliger IIIUnited States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel30 more rows
Edmund Jennings RandolphOn September 26, 1789, Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General of the United States by President George Washington.
Lynn GarlandMerrick Garland / Spouse (m. 1987)
WASHINGTON — President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, replacing him with a loyalist who has echoed the president’s complaints about the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference and will now take charge of the inquiry.
After a roller-coaster tenure as attorney general, Jeff Sessions was forced to resign. He’s been on the president’s hit list ever since he recused himself from the Russia investigation shortly after taking office. “I should not be involved investigating a campaign I had a role in.”. As recently as August, Trump went after Sessions, ...
Sessions recused himself from overseeing the Justice Department investigation in March 2017, after revelations that he had failed to report encounters with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak of Russia during the 2016 campaign.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, who could become the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that any interference with the Mueller investigation “would cause a constitutional crisis and undermine the rule of law.”.
It made a great deal of sense — Sessions had devoted much of his political career to, essentially, the agenda Trump was campaigning on. He was the Senate’s leading critic of both legal and illegal immigration, he’d blasted trade deals he thought were unfair, and he wanted to empower law enforcement to be “tougher” on crime.
Yet lurking behind all this is one crucial fact: If Sessions is fired or quits, Trump would be able to appoint a new attorney general who would not be recused from the Russia investigation. This would mean, essentially, a Trump ally seizing control of the investigation back from Rosenstein, whom the president doesn’t know well or trust.
Most crucially of all, once in office, Sessions did in fact choose to recuse himself from oversight of the Russia investigation and all investigations related to the campaign back in March (though only after news stories about undisclosed contacts he had with the Russian ambassador gave him a bit of a push).