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If Sessions is fired, Trump could be stuck with no replacement
Dave Weigel Retweeted:Latest in the Sessions soap opera: GOP senators want a senator to replace him, but no senator wants the job via @burgessev and me.
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GOP senators: No Sessions replacement could get confirmed
The possible axing of Jeff Sessions is giving Republican senators a migraine.
By BURGESS EVERETT and ELIANA JOHNSON 09/12/2018 07:11 PM EDT
Senate Republicans are in a jam when it comes to Jeff Sessions.
While resigned to President Donald Trump firing the attorney general after the midterm elections, they suspect that perhaps only a sitting senator could win confirmation as Sessions’ successor — that is, someone they could trust not to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But no one from their ranks seems to want the job.
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With few obvious potential applicants for a job that seems to come with built-in clashes with the president, some senators even suggest Trump might have to nominate a Democrat to have any hope of getting a new attorney general confirmed.
“Trump may very well want a change,” said retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “If I was the president, I’d even consider picking a Democrat if I thought I couldn’t get anybody else through.”
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GOP senators: No Sessions replacement could get confirmed
The possible axing of Jeff Sessions is giving Republican senators a migraine.
By BURGESS EVERETT and ELIANA JOHNSON 09/12/2018 07:11 PM EDT
Senate Republicans are in a jam when it comes to Jeff Sessions.
While resigned to President Donald Trump firing the attorney general after the midterm elections, they suspect that perhaps only a sitting senator could win confirmation as Sessions’ successor — that is, someone they could trust not to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But no one from their ranks seems to want the job.
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With few obvious potential applicants for a job that seems to come with built-in clashes with the president, some senators even suggest Trump might have to nominate a Democrat to have any hope of getting a new attorney general confirmed.
“Trump may very well want a change,” said retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “If I was the president, I’d even consider picking a Democrat if I thought I couldn’t get anybody else through.”
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