ESQUIRE: Jeff Sessions Is Back to Take Trump's Abuse and Cement His Rancid Legacy.

Jeff Sessions Is Back to Take Trump's Abuse and Cement His Rancid Legacy

Some people sleep on just how reprehensible Jeff Sessions' record in public life is because he mostly resisted the relentless assaults on the rule of law from Donald Trump, American president. That does deserve praise. Time after time, our fearless leader attacked the then-attorney general in public on the basis that, by recusing himself from the Justice Department's Russia probe, he was failing to protect the president. Never mind that the attorney general is the nation's top law-enforcement officer, not the president's lawyer. And never mind that Sessions recused himself on two bases: one, that he served on Trump's campaign so had a conflict of interest; and two, that he'd appeared to lie under oath in his confirmation hearings—Sessions denied this—about whether he'd had contacts with Russians during the campaign. Read More