Corruption Feared as Alabama Governor Considers Jeff Sessions Replacement
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama hasn’t yet been confirmed as U.S. attorney general, but concern already is mounting that Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley will use his vacancy-appointment power to torpedo an investigation potentially related to his own alleged corruption.
An apparent front-runner for the Senate appointment is Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, a fellow Republican who asked that impeachment proceedings against Bentley in the state legislature be delayed pending an investigation by his office, though he did not specify that the probe focused on the governor.
If Bentley appoints Strange to replace Sessions, the governor also can pick a new attorney general to replace Strange, potentially affecting that investigation.
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