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Re: Sessions told White House that Rosensteins firing could prompt his departure, too

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McGahn might also depart. He threatened to previously. There still seems to be just enough of a rule of law in the WH and DoJ to keep Trump in check.

At the same time, the old "states rights" mantra has gone a bit quiet when the rights belong to the sanctuary cities in Democratic states! But there, fortunately, we have the courts.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/19/court-deals-blow-to-trump-offensive-against-sanctuary-cities?CMP=share_btn_tw

So long as Putin doesn't interfere with the ballot box, I think the people of the US are gonna throw the bums out, bit by bit. The majority, that is, as the die-hard Trump people are incurable.




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Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too
By: clo
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Sat, 21 Apr 18 4:30 AM
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WoW!
I don't like most of Sessions politics, but I give him credit for standing tall in this case.

Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too

By Sari Horwitz, Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Matt Zapotosky April 20 at 6:30 PM

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange.

Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as Trump’s fury at Rosenstein peaked after the deputy attorney general approved the FBI’s raid April 9 on the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.

Sessions’s message to the White House, which has not previously been reported, underscores the political firestorm that Trump would invite should he attempt to remove the deputy attorney general. While Trump also has railed against Sessions at times, the protest resignation of an attorney general — which would be likely to incite other departures within the administration — would create a moment of profound crisis for the White House.

In the phone call with McGahn, Sessions wanted details of a meeting Trump and Rosenstein held at the White House on April 12, according to a person with knowledge of the call. Sessions expressed relief to learn that their meeting was largely cordial. Sessions said he would have had to consider leaving as the attorney general had Trump ousted Rosenstein, this person said.

Another person familiar with the exchange said Sessions did not intend to threaten the White House but rather wanted to convey the untenable position that Rosenstein’s firing would put him in.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-told-white-house-that-rosensteins-firing-could-prompt-his-departure-too/2018/04/20/911ca994-44c7-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2b673b9d9e6b


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