Posted on 07/27/2017 7:54:01 AM PDT by ColdOne
Full title.......................Chuck Grassley warns Judiciary Committee won't consider replacement for Jeff Sessions this year if Trump fires him.................Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, strongly suggested on Wednesday night that he would not allow his panel to consider confirming a replacement this year for Attorney General Jeff Sessions if President Trump were to fire him.
"Everybody in D.C. [should be] warned that the agenda for the judiciary [committee] is set for rest of 2017," Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote on Twitter. "Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way," he added, with "AG" referring to attorney general.
Everybody in D.C. Shld b warned that the agenda for the judiciary Comm is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 27, 2017
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
***Pres Trump would then have to fire Rosenstein***
Dear God everyone is so uniformed Trump is not going to fire Rosenstein he’s the one who put him at #2 at the DOJ.
I don’t know why everyone on here doesn’t get it. I don’t care if you love Sessions. I don’t care if you hate him. There is ONE person to blame for Rosenstein and Meuller and that is President Trump!
Rosenstein would not be working at the DOJ and would not have been able to appoint Meuller as Special Prosecutor if he had accepted his resignation. Sessions asked for it, got it, and Trump refused to sign it, and then appointed him #2 at the DOJ. If he had listened to Sessions NONE of this would be happening. He has no one to blame but himself.
And that’s what this is really about. He f’d up. But Trump doesn’t admit to mistakes, and now all of a sudden Rosenstein is a problem, Sessions is a problem, he should be going after Hillary even though he made it clear after he was elected that he was NOT going after her because she had “been through enough.”
Trump should have accepted his resignation when Sessions asked for it. It’s his fault he didn’t. It’s his fault he’s stuck with Rosenstein and Meuller, period.
Sessions should not be fired. Yes, he caved, but so did Pr. Trump when he fired Gen. Flynn, and also when HE announced that he wouldn’t be pursuing Hillary Madoff, after the election.
While I don’t like this and feel the President is entitled to who he wants as AG, Trump firing Sessions would be a disaster. He would never get who he wants in there. He’d only get a deep state type who would do none of what he wants because you know the person would not get confirmed unless he/she promised to recuse himself. My hope is that Trump’s public calling out of Sessions leads him to investigate things like the Clinton Foundation, Clinton’s ties to Russia, Lynch, Rice, the leaks, etc.
The Compost is stirring the poop-pot here as usual.
Why can't Sessions call a press conference, announce that he is terminating his recusal because the Sp. Prosecutor has been on the case for six months and there is absolutely no sign of a Trump-Russian connection. As Mueller's now un-recused boss, Session is requesting Mueller submit a Final Report on the matter in one week from this date.
Sessions then walks off with no questions allowed.
Lazy and careless. Trump can use the recess appointment power. I think I read that Reagan had to do this often.
It is hard for the Judiciary Committee to ignore when the President keeps hinting that the AG ought to resign and is not doing a good job.
I have read, but not substantiated the story about Wasserman prosecuting Awan.
I know I this sounds too simplistic, but FIRE all who are not elected and don’t fit MAGA. Let the lawsuits begin and Trump just ignore the liberal judges’ un-Constitutional decisions.
Good point...however I have to believe if it weren’t true the Dems/CNN would be denouncing the story as fake news.
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