Law Jeff Sessions resigns as AG - To the surprise of no one, for those paying attention

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Jeff Sessions has resigned as attorney general effective immediately after being asked to do so by President Trump, sources told ABC News.

"At your request, I am submitting my resignation," Sessions wrote in an undated letter to the president.

"Since the day I was honored to be sworn in as Attorney General of the United States, I came to work at the Department of Jusitce every day determined to do my duty and serve my country," Sessions wrote. "I have done so to the best of my ability, working to support the fundamental legal processes that are the foundation of justice."
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Sessions' chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a former United States attorney from Iowa, is going to be the acting AG for now.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/30/jeff-sessions-safe-attorney-general-until-midterms/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-sessions-job-is-safe-until-at-least-november-elections
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/30/jeff-sessions-job-safe-until-the-midterms-trump-says

I remember hearing something about this in the past. Trump pretty much implied back in an Aug. 30th interview he was going to get rid of Sessions after the midterm elections. So this wasn't some spur of the moment thing.
 
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Okay, wait... Rod Rosenstein was only in charge of the Mueller investigation because Sessions had recused himself, so the duty fell to the next guy in the chain. This means that Rosenstein is no longer in charge of the Special Counsel, it's going to move back to the acting Attorney General instead. That's one immediate, important distinction I can think of.

That alone already has people panicking. I've already seen Chuck Schumer and Eric Holder screaming that Whitaker has to recuse himself from all the same things that Sessions was recused from.

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I knew I remembered the name "Matthew Whitaker" from somewhere.
 
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It's HK-47 said:
Under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, the Attorney General is nominated by the President and appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate, which was just reinforced. It has nothing to do with the House. Oh God, they can't do anything to stop the next appointment.
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I wonder when we will hear about his replacement? We've got a bit of a lame duck house for good two months.
 
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It's HK-47 said:
Okay, wait... Rod Rosenstein was only in charge of the Mueller investigation because Sessions had recused himself, so the duty fell to the next guy in the chain. This means that Rosenstein is no longer in charge of the Special Counsel, it's going to move back to the acting Attorney General instead. That's one immediate, important distinction I can think of.

That alone already has people panicking. I've already seen Chuck Schumer and Eric Holder screaming that Whitaker has to recuse himself from all the same things that Sessions was recused from.

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I knew I remembered the name "Matthew Whitaker" from somewhere.
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And here I was about to ask you if you had any good data on Whitaker.

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If I was Trump I'd laugh in Schumer's face and hang up on him.
 
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Marchesa_ofthe_Vast said:
I wonder when we will hear about his replacement? We've got a bit of a lame duck house for good two months.
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I'm probably dead-ass wrong, because it's been like an hour so I'm making wild, off-the-cuff judgements while I'm tossing paperwork through the air, but a part of me suspects that Matthew Whitaker might not be as temporary as we're being lead to believe.

If you root around through his history he's expressed a lot of distaste for the Mueller investigation and expressed a lot of interest in taking a crowbar to the Clinton Foundation. He seems like exactly the kind of person that Trump would want as his Attorney General, but if he appoints a replacement that's more adamant about hunting this kind of stuff down than Whitaker is, I'd love to see them, because Whitaker's pretty hard-assed about it already.
 
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Goofy Logic said:
Considering it was one of the points that earned Trudeau up here a landslide victory, it would be hilarious if Trump offered that just to see the pinkos try to become teetotal puratins.
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These people would kill themselves if it meant trying to prove Trump wrong after saying "living is good".

Watching the most hippy dippy potheads in all of California turn into the most Reefer Madness believing, super clean cut, sober as judges squares just to spite Trump for making their pot "not cool anymore, man" would be the funniest fucking thing in the world to me
 
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