House Judiciary Dems Defend Sessions: Firing Would Ignite 'Waterfall' Of 'Crisis'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Nicole Lafond | March 22, 2018 11:24 am
House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Thursday defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions against any attempts by President Trump to oust Sessions from his role.
In a press conference discussing their push to introduce legislation that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller from any of Trump’s potential efforts to ax the special counsel, Judiciary Committee Democrats suggested firing Sessions would be just as much an obstruction of justice as discharging Mueller.
“While no one has been a bigger critic of Jeff Sessions than me, nobody,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said, “with all the damage that Sessions has done and may still do to voting rights, to immigrants, to Latinos, to women, to muslims — if Trump fires Sessions in order to rein in the Russia investigation, there would be no choice, but for this committee to go forward with impeachment. … It will leave a lot of Republicans with no choice but to go forward with us.”
The rest of the committee reiterated that sentiment. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said replacing the attorney general would begin the “waterfall” of a “constitutional crisis.”
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Keeping a person that is so terribly inept in place so that they can protect an investigation into another who is even MORE inept!
