On what legal grounds? Having the “appearance” of a conflict of interest, and the Democrats get to define what constitutes an unacceptable “appearance” of a conflict?
If Jeff Sessions was an unhororable man he’d resign.
He’s a rat protecting the other rats who destroying this country.
More mass media and congressional deception. Do you think all these reports are going to get AG Sessions to hold a press conference and disclose who is under investigation?
He should recuse himself from his job, e.g. resign.
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Watching sessions at the post Truck on bike terror attack was painful. He sounded not only Barney fideistic but he was whining apologies for the administrations not having prevented this. Is was W administration level cowering
Not at all trump ‘quit letting these people in ‘ level. He must be out of the loop
But I thought of Trump watching it it was awful. I’d have been thinking ‘you’re fired’ and with a queens accent
I watch all subsequent events with that inmind
I posted this on another thread and it’s appropriate here.
“Ed Klein, now on Hannity and who wrote the recent book,”The Plot to Destroy Trump,” says a cadre of newly hired attorneys at the DOJ are lobbying Sessions to appoint a Special Counsel for Hillary.
Sessions told them that he doesn’t want the DOJ to be political. What Jeff? Um that already happened when you clowns appointed Mulehead without any real evidence versus the evidence against Hellary which is overwhelming.”
28 U.S. Code § 455 – Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge
(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
(b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances:
(1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;
(2) Where in private practice he served as lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom he previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it;
(3) Where he has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy;
(4) He knows that he, individually or as a fiduciary, or his spouse or minor child residing in his household, has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding;
(5) He or his spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person:
(i) Is a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, or trustee of a party;
(ii) Is acting as a lawyer in the proceeding;
(iii) Is known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding;
(iv) Is to the judge’s knowledge likely to be a material witness in the proceeding.
(c) A judge should inform himself about his personal and fiduciaryfinancial interests, and make a reasonable effort to inform himself about the personal financial interests of his spouse and minor children residing in his household.
(d) For the purposes of this section the following words or phrases shall have the meaning indicated:
(1) “proceeding” includes pretrial, trial, appellate review, or other stages of litigation;
(2) the degree of relationship is calculated according to the civil law system;
(3) “fiduciary” includes such relationships as executor, administrator, trustee, and guardian;
(4) “financial interest” means ownership of a legal or equitable interest, however small, or a relationship as director, adviser, or other active participant in the affairs of a party, except that:
(i) Ownership in a mutual or common investment fund that holds securities is not a “financial interest” in such securities unless the judge participates in the management of the fund;
(ii) An office in an educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organization is not a “financial interest” in securities held by the organization;
(iii) The proprietary interest of a policyholder in a mutual insurance company, of a depositor in a mutual savings association, or a similar proprietary interest, is a “financial interest” in the organization only if the outcome of the proceeding could substantially affect the value of the interest;
(iv) Ownership of government securities is a “financial interest” in the issuer only if the outcome of the proceeding could substantially affect the value of the securities.
(e) No justice, judge, or magistrate judge shall accept from the parties to the proceeding a waiver of any ground for disqualification enumerated in subsection (b). Where the ground for disqualification arises only under subsection (a), waiver may be accepted provided it is preceded by a full disclosure on the record of the basis for disqualification.
(f) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, if any justice, judge, magistrate judge, or bankruptcy judge to whom a matter has been assigned would be disqualified, after substantial judicial time has been devoted to the matter, because of the appearance or discovery, after the matter was assigned to him or her, that he or she individually or as a fiduciary, or his or her spouse or minor child residing in his or her household, has a financial interest in a party (other than an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome), disqualification is not required if the justice, judge, magistrate judge, bankruptcy judge, spouse or minor child, as the case may be, divests himself or herself of the interest that provides the grounds for the disqualification.
Thanks for posting this...I read it and was too tired to do the work to post it.
Let’s think hard on this, deep...Trump interviewed SESSIONS, got counsel, and weighing it, appointed him. He knew what he would do and wouldn’t. I have to think in those interviews, several names were discussed, like Clinton.
Still, Trump appointed him.
So is Trump genuinely angry at SESSIONS, or is something afoot that we don’t see? Or is Trump to fire him after the tax cut stuff is over?
I think there are not many pro-Trump possible AG replacements out there.
Possibly Trump is waiting for the special election to be done first.
Fire him. Now. Today.
Oh. I see. The federal government gravy train. It just keeps on rolling.
Sessions is way over his head as AG, and should resign. He has been totally ineffective, and is standing in the way of draining the swamp. Of course, there is the possibility that he was deliberately placed in that position by the establishment to be as big an impediment as possible to Trump’s agenda.
He’s a swamp rat, through and through. POTUS should fire his useless a$$ and then claw back whatever salary the useless POS collected since taking the AG job.
Is he recusing himself in order to open the door for a special counsel to be named...someone really tough?
If true this convinces me that Hillary really does have the goods on him.
He must have reviewed the long list of dead people too closely associated with the inner workings of the Clinton’s dealings.
Or he’s just a joke.
Wait a minute! I need to take these glasses off and put on my good pair. I couldn’t be reading what’s really printed here. Right?
Mr. Giuliani, paging Mr. Giuliani, please pick up the justice phone.