Reminder: Sessions to testify b4 Senate Judiciary committee tomorrow morning

[fleur-de-lisa]

Damn! I feel a bone spur coming on. May have to call in sick! TELEVISED!!!

Link to tweet

[ffr]

1. Our resident traitor at the head of the DOJ? Really?

Cool!

Lock him up!

[dem4decades]

2. The Democratic Senators better hold his feet to the fire.

Former Senator or not, he's a menace to justice.

[Achilleaze]

3. During the dark of the moon

Perfect for the small minded Republican perjurer general and treasonweasel

[procon]

4. What is he going to be talking about? nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. Supposed to include TrumpRussia

but may also cover other orders of business.

I hope it's about meetings with Russians.

[procon]

6. He hasn't been too honest or forthcoming before. I suspect he'll be

doing a lot tapdancing in betweens bouts of amnesia and pitiful episodes of dementia.

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. Senator Franken is on that committee . . .

and I think he is out for blood.

Franken is the one who tripped up the Nazi Elf during his confirmation hearing and caused his recusal from the TrumpRussia investigation.

Cheeto is still seething over that! Sessions was supposed to be his 'get out of jail free' card on the Russia investigation.

[procon]

9. Franken is great! nt

[Madam45for2923]

7. Thanks for the FYI!!!!! Sessions to testify b4 Senate Judiciary committee Wed Oct 18 @ 10 am

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. This article is a good refresher on Nazi Elf's testimony earlier this year

https://www.justsecurity.org/46023/ag-sessions-shifting-statements-congress-russia/

It also includes a timeline of his accounts of meetings with Kislyak.


AG Sessions’ Shifting and False Statements to Congress on Russia

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for an oversight hearing. This is the first time Sessions will come before the Senate since news outlets reported that his discussions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential election included campaign-related issues—which, if true, would contradict what Sessions has previously told the Senate.

Important to watch: The most recent Sessions’ spokesperson statement in response to those news stories does not specifically deny the accuracy of those reports (see below).

What’s at stake: Lying to Congress is a felony, and special counsel Robert Mueller may have jurisdiction here since these statements materially relate to the investigation of Trump campaign relationships with Russia. There is also a delicate political balance here, since what is also at stake is Sessions’ continued survival in his position, with the president perhaps looking for a way to push him out the door.