I imagine AG Sessions would already have resigned if he didn't know exactly what Trump is up to.
In a sense, he is standing up for the justice department's apolitical foundation and deserves our support for that. In the olden days, Republicans believed in things like this, but these days they prefer the dictatory view of the world.
The constitution be damned. csl is a helpful litmus test of how things that mattered once matter not so much any longer.
Go Mussolini! Go Putin! Go Erdogan! Go Trump!