Naive? Are you f'ing serious? Sessions has gone thru the political wars many times being the target of the Dems and at times, Reps. He has stood up against all of them, including McConnell and the Rep establishment in the Senate who screwed him on committee assignments.
Sessions was an Assistant US Attorney in the Office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama beginning in 1975. In 1981, President Reagan nominated him to be the US Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. The Senate confirmed him and he held that position for 12 years until Bill Clinton's Attorney General, Janet Reno, asked for his resignation.
in 1986, Reagan nominated Sessions to be a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. Sessions's judicial nomination was recommended and actively backed by Republican Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton. A substantial majority of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which rates nominees to the federal bench, rated Sessions "qualified", with a minority voting that Sessions was "not qualified". His nomination was opposed by the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and People for the American Way.
On June 5, 1986, the Committee voted 10–8 against recommending the nomination to the Senate floor, with Republican Senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voting with the Democrats. It then split 9–9 on a vote to send Sessions's nomination to the Senate floor with no recommendation, this time with Specter in support. A majority was required for the nomination to proceed.[36] The pivotal votes against Sessions came from his home state's Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama. Although Heflin had previously backed Sessions, he began to oppose Sessions after hearing testimony, concluding that there were "reasonable doubts" over Sessions's ability to be "fair and impartial". The nomination was withdrawn on July 31, 1986.
Sessions became only the second nominee to the federal judiciary in 48 years whose nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was quoted then as saying that the Senate on occasion had be insensitive to the rights and reputation of nominees. A law clerk from the U.S. District Court in Mobile who had worked with Sessions later acknowledged the confirmation controversy, but stated that he observed Sessions as "a lawyer of the highest ethical and intellectual standards".
Sessions was elected Attorney General of Alabama in November 1994, unseating incumbent Democrat Jimmy Evans with 57% of the vote. The harsh criticism he had received from Senator Edward Kennedy, who called him a "throw-back to a shameful era" and a "disgrace", was considered to have won him the support of Alabama conservatives.
He is toast kabar.
I'm confused here. Are you saying that they screwed him out of committee assignments and that is an indication of what a fighter he is?
I just kind of skimmed the rest of your post. Having made a long career in the government and being naive aren't mutually exclusive. That he accepted the advice from a bunch of democrats (no doubt supported by never-Trump Republicans) on whether he should recuse himself tells me more about his decision-making than a whole bunch of paragraphs lauding a long history of government service and being a strong conservative.
Instead of looking for reasons that he should recuse himself, he should have found some people to lay out all the reasons that it wasn't necessary. But I guess he thought that maintaining his own self-image as a man of unquestionable integrity was more important to him than helping the President. One thing I've really noticed since the election is that the media and the Democrats are waging a full-scale war with the aim of destroying Trump's presidency. IMO, only a damned fool voluntarily lays down his arms when the enemy is attacking, just to avoid any appearance of unfairness.