Graham: New attorney general coming 'most likely early next year'

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted Monday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions' resignation is imminent and that a new attorney general would be leading the Justice Department by early next year.

"Jeff probably will step down,” Graham (R-S.C.) told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, predicting that “we’ll have a new attorney general, most likely early next year."

Sessions has been publicly excoriated by President Donald Trump since he recused himself from a federal probe into allegations of collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. Trump has laid into his top law enforcement official both in public and in private, lashing out despite Sessions’ methodical implementation of policies that Trump campaigned on, from efforts to expand religious liberty to a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Graham, a onetime critic of the president's who has grown close to him, could play a key role in replacing Sessions. The South Carolina lawmaker is poised to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee if Republicans are able to maintain their majority in the chamber and if current Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) gives up his gavel to take over the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/05/graham-new-attorney-general-961180

[dewsgirl]

1. I seriously cannot stand him anymore.

[marylandblue]

3. Not his fault, a blood sucking vampire took over his brain

Quite sad actually. John McCain had been warding off the vampire for him, but without that protection, he was easily taken.

[dewsgirl]

13. I agree 1000%.

[diva77]

19. PBS Newshour needs to hire you to replace the pathetic regulars they have doing

"news analysis" !!!

[SFnomad]

17. Which one? Graham? Sessions? tRump? or all three for good measure? n/t

[dewsgirl]

18. All 3 of course. But since McCain died, Graham has

Infuriated me in a special way.

[marylandblue]

2. Did Graham rub his hands and laugh maniacally?

[True Blue American]

5. Wonder what

John would say about Lindsey now? He has lost all sense of self respect.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Lindsay Graham? Rudy Giuliani?

Jeanine Pirro? Ted Cruz if he loses?

[irresistable]

6. Lindsey was gazing into a hand held mirror when he announced that.

[House of Roberts]

7. Let's take the Senate,

then we'll see who gets to be AG.

[NewJeffCT]

10. If we get a miracle and take the senate

I'm going to write and tweet every senate Democrat and demand that not one friggin' federal judge from Trump gets appointed at any level unless the judge is named Barack Obama or Merrick Garland.

[obamanut2012]

15. 1. You called a man a woman, using gender as an insult 2. you used sexual imagery of a gay man

On his knees wiping semen off his chin.

I hate Lindsey Graham, and I am able to talk about hating him without using homophobic and misogynistic language.

Learn to do it, too. Your post is a disgrace for DU.

[mahina]

16. I loathe him but that's uncool two ways.

Come on.

[BigMin28]

9. I wonder

What Graham is willing to kiss to get the job.

[Freethinker65]

11. Chicken Little Lindsey

[iluvtennis]

12. Purrrfect description

[ffr]

14. Phuck anything any republican has to say. Might as well be dumpster fire for all I care.

Not news unless its of GOP members/tRump getting arrested or something a democrat had to say.