RE: Trump: Wish I picked someone other than Sessions to head DOJ
Can’t Trump replace him with somebody else?
I wish you could correct that mistake, POTUS. but for some reason it doesn’t happen.
Mueller is currently investigating Trump for *thinking* about firing Sessions. You’d think it was The Onion but it’s the truth.
Legally and Constitutionally the answer is yes.
But in the current political environment it would be difficult.
The democrats and RINOs know that Sessions is protecting Hillary and the wrong-doers in the DOJ and FBI and don't want him removed.
And that is how the Deep Staters want it.
So they have arrogantly decided that the President should not exercise his prerogative.
That he should not go against their wishes, the Constitution be damned.
And they are lurking in the wings, ready to pounce if he does.
If (when) the President did fire Sessions there would be an uproar in the Senate and the House accompanied by all sorts of public preening,
posturing, peacock strutting and threats of impeachment.
Even if it all came to nothing it would disrupt progress on every other issue before congress.
If Sessions was as honorable as he thinks he is he would have tendered his resignation at the same time he decided to recuse himself.
And even now, knowing that he is not doing an acceptable job as Attorney General, he would resign for the good of the nation.
If he was an honorable man.
He could replace him but Mitch McConnell said he would not allow another AG to be confirmed.
So who is really running the country?
Sessions did a grave disservice, and his Russian conversations as the basis for the recusal, were de minimus. Secondly, Russia is not guilty of espionage, or Mueller could not prove it. His indictment sucked. So what has Sessions recused himself from? There is no crime.
He could unrecuse himself, if he thought the Constitution was worth fighting for.