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Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46132348

"US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Donald Trump.

[...] Mr Trump said Mr Sessions will be temporarily replaced by his chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, who has criticised the Russia inquiry.

[...] In a resignation letter, Mr Sessions - a former Alabama senator who was an early supporter of Mr Trump - made clear the decision to go was not his own.

[...] The president cannot directly fire the special counsel, whose investigation Mr Trump has repeatedly decried as a witch hunt. But Mr Sessions' replacement will have the power to fire Mr Mueller or end the inquiry.

[...] Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he looks forward to 'working with President Trump to find a confirmable, worthy successor so that we can start a new chapter at the Department of Justice'.

Mr Graham, of South Carolina, had said last year there would be 'holy hell to pay' if Mr Sessions was ever fired."

[...] House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said: "It is impossible to read Attorney General Sessions' firing as anything other than another blatant attempt by President Trump to undermine & end Special Counsel Mueller's investigation."

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns

takyon writes:

Jeff Sessions is out. The new Acting Attorney General is Matthew G. Whitaker:

President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "At your request I am submitting my resignation," Sessions wrote in a letter to White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Matthew Whitaker will take over as acting attorney general, the President said. Whitaker is expected to take charge of the Russia investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Whitaker has been openly critical of Mueller and the investigation and Democrats immediately called on him to recuse himself, just as Sessions had.

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See also: New acting A.G. criticized Mueller probe several times
What does Jeff Sessions's firing mean for Mueller and the Trump-Russia inquiry?

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1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "Jeff Sessions is out." - https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/sessions-resign/index.html
3. "Attorney General Jeff Sessions" - http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/us/jeff-sessions-fast-facts/index.html
4. "wrote in a letter" - https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/sessions-resignation-letter/index.html
5. "Tweet" - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1060256619383193601
6. "New acting A.G. criticized Mueller probe several times" - https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/07/matthew-whitaker-criticized-mueller-probe-973204
7. "What does Jeff Sessions's firing mean for Mueller and the Trump-Russia inquiry?" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/07/jeff-sessions-firing-russia-investigation-mueller-trump
8. "The US Surveillance State is Poised to Become Even More Powerful" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/12/01/0150210
9. "Trump and Sessions Plan to Restrict H-1B Workers. Hyderabad Says to Bring It On." - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/10/057253
10. "Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/24/2349251
11. "Washington State Will Resist Federal Crackdown on Cannabis" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/25/0642241
12. "DoJ Reverses Plans to Reduce the Use of Private Prisons" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/25/0649212
13. "New Attorney General Claims Legal Weed Drives Violent Crime; Statistics be Damned" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/02/0527212
14. "Trump Administration's War on Science Reaches DoJ" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/04/15/1429223
15. "4/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/04/06/1914231
16. "Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/05/15/2043241
17. "U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/01/04/1749207
18. "President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=18/01/27/0250222
19. "President Trump Promises to Support State Legalization of Cannabis; Boehner Evolves" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/14/0038239
20. "Original Submission #1" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29988
21. "Original Submission #2" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29989

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