Jeff Sessions - still a lickspittle.That was quite a puppet show that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the Attorney General of these United States, put on before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
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He seemed to be making a tacit—and, occasionally, less than tacit—argument that he is somehow the lawyer for the Executive Branch, and for the president.
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Treating the DOJ like the house law firm is how we got Watergate. It was how then-AG Edwin Meese gave the Iran-Contra conspirators a window to shred those inconvenient documents that were not smuggled out in Fawn Hall's lingerie. It doesn't much matter if the Postmaster General thinks he is an employee of the president and not a public servant, but having the attorney general feel that way is an invitation to deceit under the color of law, and to sanctified corruption.
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Consider, for example, his non-answer to Senator Diane Feinstein when she asked him why "strangely" the Justice Department was defending the president* against lawsuits charging that he is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution through his various hostelries. [...] Much to the amazement of Feinstein, Sessions replied:
"I would say that it is the responsibility of the Department of Justice to defend the office of the presidency in carrying on these activities against charges that are not deemed meritorious."[...]
It is decidedly not the DOJ's responsibility to "defend the office of the presidency." That's how Mitchell and the rest of them ended up in the federal pokey. And it is certainly not the responsibility of the Attorney General of the United States to determine whether an action brought against the president is "meritorious" one way or the other.
Charles P Pierce
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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