Sessions got hoodwinked by a third rate comic into recusing himself. Whether it was by his or Smalley’s design, time will tell. However, it is fine now to look at his stupid action, say he obviously made a huge mistake, and recant his recusal. What are they going to do, impeach him?
My guess is he does not want to get into the situation where the winners investigate the losers after elections. The recusal was the easy way out. However, the irony here is he is letting the losers obstruct the president’s mandate which is just as that if not worse.
History is repeating. We let a charade go on with Nixon. The irony there was a few of those on those committees were integrity challenged beyond anything that Nixon did. He was investigated for everything from tax fraud to masterminding a two bit break in. He had won 49 states and 97% of the electoral vote and the public let the dems take him out. That is just what they are trying to do now admittedly in a closer election.
Before he resigned, Nixon’s administration was tied up, Haig was actually running the government and most of his senior officials were testifying, on their way to jail, or resigning. Sessions: Don’t let it happen again.
If Trump fires Sessions, Rosenstein will probably resign. And then what happens with Mueller? Trump is heading down the path of the Nixon Saturday night massacre.
U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson had appointed Cox in May, after promising the House Judiciary Committee that he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the events surrounding the break-in of the Democratic National Committee's offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. The appointment was created as a career reserved position in the Justice department, meaning it came under the authority of the attorney general who could only remove the special prosecutor "for cause", e.g., gross improprieties or malfeasance in office. Richardson had, in his confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate, promised not to use his authority to dismiss the Watergate special prosecutor, unless for cause.
When Cox issued a subpoena to Nixon, asking for copies of taped conversations recorded in the Oval Office, the president refused to comply. On Friday, October 19, 1973, Nixon offered what was later known as the Stennis Compromise—asking the infamously hard-of-hearing Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi to review and summarize the tapes for the special prosecutor's office. Cox refused the compromise that same evening and it was believed that there would be a short rest in the legal maneuvering while government offices were closed for the weekend.
However, the following day (Saturday) Nixon ordered Attorney General Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned in protest. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox. Ruckelshaus also refused and resigned.
Nixon then ordered the Solicitor General of the United States, Robert Bork, as acting head of the Justice Department, to fire Cox. Both Richardson and Ruckelshaus had given personal assurances to Congressional oversight committees that they would not interfere, but Bork had not. Although Bork later claimed he believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he still considered resigning to avoid being "perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job". Nevertheless, having been brought to the White House by limousine and sworn in as acting attorney general, Bork wrote the letter firing Cox – and the Saturday Night Massacre was complete.
Total BS. The confirmation hearings were in late January and early February. Sessions was confirmed on February 8. Weeks passed before Sessions announced his recusal on March 2, weeks in which there were endless opportunities for the WH team to call people together and make a team decision on the question of recusal.
Sessions ‘hoodwinked’? That like Roberts being ‘black-mailed’??
I have yet to find any evidence to treat ANY govt employee vis-a-vie Hanlon’s Razor.
Seems to me he’s the quintessential D.C. critter, more interested in his position/power than anything else. Pure and simple.