Schumer Calls For Sessions Resignation, Special Prosecutor
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published MARCH 2, 2017, 10:42 AM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign after the Washington Post reported that Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice during the presidential campaign.
"There cannot be even the scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top law enforcement official of the land. After this, it's clear attorney general sessions does not meet that test," Schumer said during a news conference. "Because the Department of Justice should be above reproach, for the good of the country, Attorney General Sessions should resign."
Sessions denied during a confirmation hearing that he had been in contact with Russia during the 2016 campaign, but his spokesperson told TPM Thursday that he had "met with the ambassador in an official capacity as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is entirely consistent with his testimony.”
Schumer also demanded that the acting deputy attorney general, Dana J. Boente, who was nominated as a U.S. attorney by former President Barack Obama in 2015, appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Russia's involvement in the 2016 campaign – a role that Sessions would otherwise have picked.
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