Trump doesn't have to fire Sessions. He offered his resignation. Sessions has too much integrity to stay in office if Trump no longer has confidence in him.
However, what if, despite the threat, and due to just a worsening opinion of the President to his appointed AG, he fires him anyways?
Trump will live with the consequences. Will Steven Miller remain on his staff if his mentor is fired? What will be the reaction of conservatives in general if the most prominent conservative in his administration is fired? What is the reason given for his removal? How does this affect issues like immigration enforcement?
What does Grassley and the senate do then? Keep Rosenstein as acting AG for a few years? What if Pres. Trump fires him, too? Who is next in the hierarchy?
Deep State will run DOJ.
And if the President fires the AG, and appoints another, and he/she is otherwise qualified, how long will the Senate hold out?
Depends on the nominee. It also depends on who controls the Senate in 2018. The GOP could lose its slim majority.
Who would then win the war of opinion? After all, one could argue, the President DID fire the AG, and now we have none, and he/she who is his appointed candidate isn't a devil with horns, why is the Senate now hurting us with leaving us with no chief law enforcement director? Is this just to fulfill a grudge at our expense?
It depends on who is the nominee and the reason for the dismissal of Sessions. Sessions received one Dem vote during his confirmation process--Joe Mancin. Will Trump appoint someone who can get more Dem votes?
Rosenstein was confirmed 94-6. The senators voting against Rosenstein’s confirmation were all Democrats: Cory Booker (N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) He would be acting AG.
And what if Sessions behavior does go from bad to worse?
I don't share your assessment that Sessions' "behavior" has been bad. I am very pleased with his performance as he restructures DOJ and re-institutes the Rule of Law.
Surely the President can replace him, or, if not, then the Senate has usurped the President's authority.
No one disputes that. But the Senate has a constitutional role in the confirmation process. I suspect that no matter who Trump appoints to replace Sessions will be controversial. It will be a long, difficult process.
I don't share your assessment that Sessions' "behavior" has been bad. I am very pleased with his performance as he restructures DOJ and re-institutes the Rule of Law.
Sessions, if you will remember, is MY senator (Alabama) and I not only voted for him enthusiastically, I know him, met him at several venues (especially during campaigns) and really love the guy.
But he has deeply disappointed me. And not only me, but most FReepers. I expected SO MUCH MORE from him. I really did.
If The President and Jeff are playing some game to fool their opponents in the deep state, then it's the best game ever in history.
But let's use Occam's Razor. The reason Hillary and Obama are not being prosecuted for what is apparently a crime, while on hand we have a special counselor investigating a situation where NO CRIME has even been assigned shows me and people like me that the government we expected is being thwarted, and moreover allowed to be thwarted by that same government.
I voted for Trump to clean up the country. That didn't mean letting these blatant crimes of the Clintons simply walk and not be further investigated.
If that is the case, and Jeff told Jason Chavetz, Congressman and chairman of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the very same, then why anyone of us should be prosecuted for any crime is a travesty!
Unless I see otherwise, Sessions is presiding over the end of the rule of law.
If I recall one of the problems you have with Sessions is that he was loyal to Trump when few were.It was after the left had released an enormous dump of bad stuff on him during the campaign. Most everyone was down on Trump except for Sessions.If I recall Sessions had his pick of jobs. He chose DOJ. Just goes to show only one person should be picking and no one else.