Article: If Jeff Sessions Will Not Resign, He Should Be Impeached

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Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States announces that "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

The attorney general of the United States is a civil officer of the United States. If he has lied under oath to the Senate, that act demands impeachment.

After news reports published Wednesday evening suggested that Sessions had lied to the Senate, there was demand that the attorney general recuse himself and resign. Sessions announced Thursday morning that he would recuse himself from any inquiry into Russian involvement with President Trump's campaign if it's "appropriate" to do so. But he did not actually recuse himself. And he did not even entertain the necessary discussion of resignation.

On the assumption that a lawless attorney general will not do the right thing, then impeachment is the right response. Here's where we are: The Washington Post has reported that during the 2016 presidential campaign, when Sessions was a close counselor and top surrogate for Donald Trump, he spoke twice with Russia's ambassador to the United States.

Sessions acknowledges the meetings now. But when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Trump's nominee for attorney general in January, Senator Al Franken asked how he might handle revelations that individuals associated with the Trump campaign had communicated with the Russian government. Sessions replied: "I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians."

This was not the only denial from Sessions. According to The Washington Post:

"In January, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked Sessions for answers to written questions. 'Several of the President-elect's nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?' Leahy wrote.
"Sessions responded with one word: 'No.'"
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</blockquote>We now know that was wrong. And, unless Sessions is too absentminded to serve as attorney general, we now have evidence that the Republican engaged in an obvious attempt to deceive the Senate that would determine whether he should serve as attorney general.Sessions and his aides were busy making <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-trump-campaign">excuses</a> Wednesday night, claiming that he spoke with the ambassador in his official capacity as a senator rather than as a Trump surrogate -- and that the Russian ambassador was one of many foreign officials with whom he met as "a senior member of the Armed Services Committee."<pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">So what? The issue isn't whether Sessions spoke with the ambassador. Nor does it matter whether he did so in his capacity as a senator or in his capacity as a Trump surrogate. He was both. What matters is what Sessions told fellow senators when he was asked straightforward questions. He volunteered, "I did not have communications with the Russians." He replied "no" to a direct inquiry about whether he had such communications. At the most, these were overt lies; at the least, these were legalistic attempts by Sessions to deceive colleagues who were charged by the Constitution with a duty to provide advice and consent regarding his nomination to serve as the nation's chief law-enforcement officer.</pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">The new reports about this conflict led to immediate calls for the attorney general to recuse himself from inquiries into allegations that the Russians meddled in the 2016 election. New York Representative <a href="https://engel.house.gov/">Eliot Engel</a>, the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said Wednesday, "Tonight's revelation about then-Senator Sessions's contact with Russia's ambassador removes all doubt that he must recuse himself from any investigation of Russia's interference in last year's election. He should do so without delay. The President should also appoint a special prosecutor to handle this matter whose work must complement a thorough investigation by a bipartisan commission."</pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">Even Republicans who have been slow to hold the Trump administration to account were calling for recusal. House Oversight and Government Reform committee chair Jason Chaffetz tweeted: "AG Sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself."</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi had a more appropriate reaction; declaring <a href="http://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/3117-3/">that</a> "after lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign. Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign. There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the Trump political, personal and financial connections to the Russians."</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer agreed.</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">So did Senator Elizabeth Warren, who <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/321940-warren-calls-for-sessions-to-resign-special-prosecutor-to">said</a>: "We need a special prosecutor totally independent of the AG. We need a real, bipartisan, transparent Congressional investigation into Russia. And we need Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- who should have never been confirmed in the first place -- to resign. We need it now."</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">True enough, but Sessions has not given any indication that he intends to resign. And his record does not offer any indication that he intends to start telling the truth.</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">The founders anticipated such circumstances, which is why they wrote a constitution that outlined an impeachment process. The catch-all phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" was intended to give guardians of the republic leeway for holding presidents, vice presidents, and cabinet members to account. An impeached official is not charged by a prosecutor and tried in the courts; nor is he or she jailed or fined if found guilty. An impeached official is charged by the House of Representatives, tried by the Senate, and removed from office if convicted.</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">The founders <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Impeachment-Founders-Cure-Royalism/dp/1595581405">did not intend</a> that this tool would be used only by the opposition party; the intent was that all members of the House and Senate might rise above partisanship and ideology when it came time to defend the American experiment. And, while no one is naive about the level of partisanship in today's Washington, no one should make excuses for House members or senators who fail to rise above it.</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">Jeff Sessions disrespected the basic premises of that experiment and disregarded the Constitution. He did so in pursuit of a position: that of attorney general of the United States. He obtained that position under false pretenses. It is now time to relieve him of his responsibilities as the nation's chief law-enforcement officer.</pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><blockquotemercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- font-style:=-- italic=-- margin:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- quotes:=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb=""><pmercury display=-- a=-- b=-- font-size:=-- outline:=-- padding:=-- vertical-align:=-- baseline=-- line-height:=-- color:=-- rgb="">The tool, impeachment, is at the ready. It should be employed by all members of Congress who believe that constitutionally defined oaths must be upheld. </pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></blockquotemercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury></pmercury>Copyright - 2017 thenation.com -- distributed by Agence Global </aside>