Posted on 07/27/2017 8:37:16 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that:
Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the provisions of section 2 of this order, the following officers, in the order listed, shall act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of Attorney General during any period in which the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Associate Attorney General, and any officers designated by the Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 508 to act as Attorney General, have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of Attorney General, until such time as at least one of the officers mentioned above is able to perform the functions and duties of that office:
(a) United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia;
(b) United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; and
(c) United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov ...
Yeah full of recesses.
Unless Session resigns Trump is stuck with Rosenstein or a Obongo holdover as acting AG for who knows how long. So it looks like Trump wont even be able to get someone in there to get Mueller under control. Just great, what a mess. The recusal is the gift that keeps on giving.
They weren’t fired til march 10
It is a mess for sure. But Rachel Brand, the #3 at DOJ, is thought to be good, so if Sessions and Rosenstein are both fired, she becomes Acting AG. That might be a good thing, apart from (or because of?) RINO heads exploding if that happens. The problem I see is that Paul Ryan cannot be counted on to not to react to that by endorsing either a select committee a la Watergate (young freepers - google that to see what a disaster it was) or by allowing, or even endorsing, legislation to create a Lawrence Walsh-like Independent Counsel (which is different from and even worse than the law Mueller is operating under). The big problem that Pres. Trump has had from the very beginning has been Paul Ryan.
Probably because Obama changed it to benefit him in the future...
Sec. 3. Revocation of Executive Order. Executive Order 13762 of January 13, 2017, is revoked.
Same was said about Rosenstein who is a key player in the coup.
Yes, that’s right.
Grassley said he wont deal with ANY nominees replacing sessions as his agenda is full. Not sure if this year or beyond
Trump isn’t going to fire Sessions, it is rope-a-dope. Sessions is KILLING illegal immigration, Trump’s #1 platform plank .. the results are astounding. So now Trump gets the Democrats to try to “save” Sessions and fall in line behind supporting sessions, and once they are solidly behind him, he turns Sessions loose on the full Hilary/Clinton Foundation probe ... Democrats are caught with their pants down supporting Sessions. People keep thinking Trump is playing checkers, when he’s playing 3D chess. If you haven’t Read “art of the deal” you have no idea what I’m talking about. The left painted Reagan as a dunce ... making the same mistake here.
Trump isn’t going to fire Sessions, it is rope-a-dope. Sessions is KILLING illegal immigration, Trump’s #1 platform plank .. the results are astounding. So now Trump gets the Democrats to try to “save” Sessions and fall in line behind supporting sessions, and once they are solidly behind him, he turns Sessions loose on the full Hilary/Clinton Foundation probe ... Democrats are caught with their pants down supporting Sessions. People keep thinking Trump is playing checkers, when he’s playing 3D chess. If you haven’t Read “art of the deal” you have no idea what I’m talking about. The left painted Reagan as a dunce ... making the same mistake here.
The attacks by Trump on Sessions I happen to feel is a Machiavelian move. If Sessions publicly directed going after Hillary on his own we know how the media would handle it. Trump’s driven by the realization if one looks at the direction and subjects Trump brings up. He is doing the media’s work. Because if the media were honest and objective. It would be going after the corruption instead of concealing or misdirecting public attention from it.
I’m not alone in believing this. Rush Limbaugh devoted several segments of his talkie to this .
trump is a vindictive guy.
He is backed into a corner right now. He has no choice but to back off ...Sessions won this by calling the bluff and having Congress back him.
But believe me..he will seethe about it..and you will see it come out again.
Stay tuned..it likely wont take long..before end of year you will see it erupt again.
How is he about to get the boot when this EO was done in February? Did Trump have this planned in February?
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