Nov 08, 2018 · "There are many, many reasons to remove Attorney General Sessions -- from his failure to disclose his communications with the Russians to his inhumane policy of separating children from their ...
Nov 08, 2018 · US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Donald Trump. Mr Trump had criticised his top law official for months, mainly over his refusal to oversee the investigation into ...
Nov 09, 2018 · The rule of law is not thriving when a special counsel investigating a sitting president needs protection from the attorney general. Only having fired Comey, Trump could not fire Sessions, too ...
Nov 08, 2018 · President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday after a year of intense scrutiny from the White House. Sessions' exit, a resignation forced by Trump, was expected for weeks ...
The rule of law is not thriving when a special counsel investigating a sitting president needs protection from the attorney general. Only having fired Comey, Trump could not fire Sessions, too – at least, not without risking a firestorm ...
I n an act of unusual forbearance, Donald Trump waited a full 12 hours after the end of the midterm elections to sack Jeff Sessions. Clearly the president had been itching to get rid of Sessions for months. No matter that Sessions had been one of Trump’s earliest and most vocal supporters, endorsing him when no other Republican senator was willing to embrace the untethered reality TV star as a serious political force. But the early bromance quickly soured, and for most of his unhappy tenure at the helm of the justice department, Sessions became one of Trump’s favorite targets of ritualistic humiliation.
In recusing himself, the attorney general took control of the Russia inquiry out of the hands of a Trump loyalist, and handed it to Rod Rosenstein, where it remained until today. Sessions placed loyalty to his office above fealty to his chief, the same sin that got James Comey axed.
Even though Sessions was one of Trump's earliest supporters, the president has been laser-focused on targeting Sessions, going as far as to appearing to completely disassociate Sessions with the administration.
Sessions' ouster immediately moves oversight of the ongoing investigation to interim successor Whitaker, who once called for the inquiry to be dramatically scaled back.
Whitaker, a former football player in Iowa who rose there to become a federal prosecutor and chief of staff at the Justice Department, had been considered for a variety of jobs in the Trump administration.
In a resignation letter sent to the president, Sessions thanked Trump "for the opportunity" to be attorney general. He also listed what he considered his accomplishments during his tenure.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed to protect Mueller, saying it would create a constitutional crisis if Session’s departure were a prelude to ending, or greatly limiting, Mueller’s investigation.
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.
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.
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted to try to stay until the end of the week, but White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told him no. Kelly was very firm it had to be today, according to administration officials.
While Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will no longer oversee the Russia investigation, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions privately believed that Rosenstein has handled the investigation properly after it was dropped “right in his lap,” according to a source familiar with Sessions’ thinking.
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was one of the earliest supporters of President Donald Trump, but over time their relationship became strained.
Bill Clinton ultimately fired Sessions on July 19, 1993. "We cannot have a leadership vacuum at an agency as important to the United States as the FBI," Clinton said at a White House press conference after the dismissal. "It is time that this difficult chapter in the agency's history is brought to a close.".
Sessions maintained he had not done anything wrong and refused to leave amid calls for his resignation. Bill Clinton ultimately fired Sessions on July 19, 1993. "We cannot have a leadership vacuum at an agency as important to the United States as the FBI," Clinton said at a White House press conference after the dismissal.
Bill Clinton fires FBI Director William Sessions in 1993. Sessions was fired on the recommendation of Attorney General Janet Reno. ABCNews.com. — -- James Comey's abrupt firing as FBI director took Washington -- and the nation -- by surprise Tuesday, but he is not the first bureau chief to be dismissed by a president.
Why President Clinton fired then-FBI Director William Sessions in July 1993. Williams Sessions was the first FBI director to be fired. By BLAIR SHIFF.
William Sessions -- no relation to current Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- served as director of the FBI from Nov. 2, 1987, until July 19, 1993, when he was fired by then President Bill Clinton. Sessions, who was affiliated with the Republican Party, was nominated for FBI director by then President Ronald Reagan.
President Donald Trump declined to accept the resignations of Dana Boente (left) and Rod Rosenstein (right).
Initial media reports described Sessions' move as abrupt and unexpected, but not unprecedented. Slate 's Leon Neyfakh accused media outlets of sensationalizing Sessions' actions, which he said were "nothing particularly unusual or surprising", and noted the mass firings of U.S. attorneys accompanying each presidential transition.