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Title: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: K Frame on November 07, 2018, 02:53:24 PM
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-sessions-resigns-as-attorney-general


This is my shocked face.  =|
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: MechAg94 on November 07, 2018, 02:55:56 PM
I guess that has been rumored. 

Should we start betting on who the replacement will be?  I have a feeling this has been planned and Trump will have a replacement soon.  
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: brimic on November 07, 2018, 03:24:19 PM
About time.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: DittoHead on November 07, 2018, 03:44:51 PM
well I guess I can hope for someone a little less enthusiastic about asset forfeiture & locking up pot smokers.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: zxcvbob on November 07, 2018, 03:58:49 PM
Good riddance.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Perd Hapley on November 07, 2018, 04:00:05 PM
well I guess I can hope for someone a little less enthusiastic about asset forfeiture & locking up pot smokers.

How about someone who'll be an honest broker on the various witch hunt investigations?
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Scout26 on November 07, 2018, 04:07:28 PM
Trey Gowdy
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: brimic on November 07, 2018, 04:13:38 PM
well I guess I can hope for someone a little less enthusiastic about asset forfeiture & locking up pot smokers.

That.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Hawkmoon on November 07, 2018, 04:42:57 PM
I don't think he'll be missed.

Except maybe by Robert Mueller ...
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: RocketMan on November 07, 2018, 05:29:34 PM
Trey Gowdy

One can only dream.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: French G. on November 07, 2018, 06:44:52 PM
Screw it, this is great. I identify as having a personal dislike of trump while voting for him. Cancelling the subscription on the dislike, he's a political genius. He turned inside of the news cycle on a day that is supposed to celebrate the blue wave. Now they're screaming about constitutional crisis, muh Mueller probe, recusal and such.

Now, when their respiration rate returns to normal somebody tell them who confirms the replacement. :D

Hey, there is enough of a majority in the Senate, Trump can afford to take a chance. Nominate Cruz, watch millions more get wasted on a special election.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Hawkmoon on November 07, 2018, 07:15:16 PM

Hey, there is enough of a majority in the Senate, Trump can afford to take a chance. Nominate Cruz, watch millions more get wasted on a special election.

What special election? If a senator leaves office mid-term, doesn't the governor of the state get to appoint a replacement to serve out the remainder of the term? So the new Congress gets sworn in on January x. Nominate Cruz, he resigns his Senate seat on January (x+1), then the new Republican governor of Texas names a new Republican senator from the Lone Star State.

Nope -- I'm wrong (again): https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am17.html

Better to leave Cruz in the Senate for now, and name somebody like Trey Gowdy as AG.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on November 07, 2018, 07:32:41 PM
Trey Gowdy

He does put on a good show in his televised hearings but not one damn thing of consequence has ever come from any of it.
Bread and circuses.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: DittoHead on November 07, 2018, 08:07:34 PM
an honest broker

I think that would be preferable to an Eric Holder "Wing Man" type AG. Which do you think Trump would like?
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: French G. on November 07, 2018, 10:13:25 PM
Trying to figure out what makes the biggest head explosion. Nominate someone named Trump? Is Dick Cheney still healthy?
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: grampster on November 07, 2018, 11:22:59 PM
Leave Cruz in the Senate.  There are some really good conservatives that could be a great AG.  How about Rush Limbaugh,  :rofl: :rofl:  I used to think Gowdy, but it seems he's just a bloviator.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: zxcvbob on November 07, 2018, 11:32:31 PM
Leave Cruz in the Senate.  There are some really good conservatives that could be a great AG.  How about Rush Limbaugh,  :rofl: :rofl:  I used to think Gowdy, but it seems he's just a bloviator.

Ann Coulter :D
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Hawkmoon on November 07, 2018, 11:50:08 PM
Ann Coulter :D

YESSSSSSS!!!!

And she's an attorney, so she's qualified. But I don't think she's take it if offered.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Angel Eyes on November 08, 2018, 12:42:39 AM
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Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: T.O.M. on November 08, 2018, 07:13:26 AM
What makes me laugh in all of this is the responses to Sessions.  There were protests by the left when Sessions was nominated.  Now they are planning protests in response to his removal (fired, resigned, excommunicated, whatever you want to call it.)  Seems to show that they will protest Trump no matter what he does.
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Scout26 on November 09, 2018, 03:33:11 PM
He does put on a good show in his televised hearings but not one damn thing of consequence has ever come from any of it.
Bread and circuses.


The only thing congress(critters) can do is investigate, write laws, and control the purse strings.  Any judicial actions have to come from....wait for it.....The AG and the Justice Department. 
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: brimic on November 09, 2018, 04:21:22 PM
https://politics.theonion.com/inconsolable-jeff-sessions-tries-to-commit-suicide-by-s-1826462420
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on November 09, 2018, 04:24:22 PM
The only thing congress(critters) can do is investigate, write laws, and control the purse strings.  Any judicial actions have to come from....wait for it.....The AG and the Justice Department. 

Of course. But has anyone ever even been referred to DOJ for investigation?
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Scout26 on November 09, 2018, 04:36:17 PM
Of course. But has anyone ever even been referred to DOJ for investigation?


Again, that's up to the AG. 
Title: Re: Sessions just pulled the plug.
Post by: Ben on November 09, 2018, 05:10:02 PM
:)

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/11/09/best-or-worst-kamala-harris-shot-chaser-maybe-ever-you-decide-its-spectacularly-bad/