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kentuck

(110,947 posts)
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:05 PM May 2018

Question for DU'ers: If Trump removes Sessions and replaces him with Rudy Guiliani...?

...would he have to go thru Senate confirmation?

If Rudy were to become the new AG, could he fire Robert Mueller?

These people are masters at diversion. If this latest Stormy Daniels/campaign finance story is indeed meant as a diversion, look for Sessions to be gone soon.

There is a story moving under the current, in my opinion.

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Sanity Claws

(21,822 posts)
3. I couldn't even imagine him going through the hearing.
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:09 PM
May 2018

But it would be a laughfest, as we count the number of crimes that he opens Trump up to.

Zoonart

(11,747 posts)
2. I worry that the plan is to install Rudy
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:09 PM
May 2018

as a recess appointment. That gives him 120 days a provisional to do all the damage...before the Senate even takes up his nomination.

hlthe2b

(101,698 posts)
6. I believe he can do that with a current senate-confirmed cabinet member
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:15 PM
May 2018

but I don't think he can do that with someone not already in the administration and having gone through one Senate confirmation already. That's why he was able to slide Pompeio from CIA to State Dept.

IF he CAN do so, there have been attempts (even by Republicans) to prevent recess appointments by a technicality that maintains a few people around to keep Senate in session.

salin

(48,954 posts)
11. I think this is why he keeps being rosey about Pruitt despite the mounting
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:52 PM
May 2018

horrible press due to the multiplying scandals.

MineralMan

(146,189 posts)
4. He could, but it's a far-fetched idea.
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:10 PM
May 2018

I doubt Rudy would be confirmed, and I further doubt that Trump would appoint him. Rudy's timing chain is slipping a tooth on the camshaft sprocket more and more often these days.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
5. Technically he'd have to recuse himself
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:15 PM
May 2018

Now that he is on Trumps legal team, if he was able to actually get confirmed (not really possible hopefully) department rules would require him to recuse himself (Just like... oh... what was his name????)

themaguffin

(3,805 posts)
7. He's a trump lawyer & on his defense. That would have to pass the Senate
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:29 PM
May 2018

and of course with this GOP, that is entirely possible.

tableturner

(1,676 posts)
8. Firing Sessions/Rosenstein to get Mueller won't work due to DOJ Conflicts Rule, 28 CFR 45.
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:30 PM
May 2018

The DOJ Conflicts Rule, 28 CFR 45 basically says that any appointee with a political or personal relationship with Trump must recuse.

Therefore, a previously confirmed cabinet officer, if installed in place of either Sessions or Rosenstein, would be required to recuse. The same could be said about almost ANY person Trump may appoint....almost all of the possibilities publicly mentioned, and many others not publicly mentioned, have a political or personal relationship with Trump.

A bit more of an explanation:


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