# Sessions is out **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150 "2018-11-07T19:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/1 "2018-11-07T19:51:25Z")
> [@](#): > > **Sessions out at Justice Department** > > Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out as the top official at the Justice Department, a development that is likely to spark a firestorm of criticism following the midterm elections. - [Source (The Hill)](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/415510-sessions-out-at-justice-department) Immediately after a Democratic House promises investigations. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/2 "2018-11-07T19:52:53Z")
Who is stupid enough to take his place? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/3 "2018-11-07T19:54:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who is stupid enough to take his place? Someone willing to fire Rosenstein and Mueller. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/4 "2018-11-07T19:55:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who is stupid enough to take his place? Matt Whitaker. Sessions’ Chief of Staff. That’s who. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/5 "2018-11-07T19:55:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who is stupid enough to take his place? Michael Cohen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/6 "2018-11-07T19:56:00Z")
Lindsey Graham since SC is a safe seat for the GOP and Trump probably told Nikki Haley the seat is hers if she wants it ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/7 "2018-11-07T19:59:49Z")
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Trump’s administration is like a clown car with a revolving door on it. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/8 "2018-11-07T19:59:51Z")
Looks to me like Trump wrote the [resignation letter](https://www.scribd.com/document/392617098/Read-Letter-From-the-Attorney-General#fullscreen&from_embed). ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/9 "2018-11-07T20:02:30Z")
Sessions’s interim replacement, Matthew Whitaker, wrote in 2017 that Mueller’s investigation was going too far. [https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/opini...ion/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/opini...ion/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/10 "2018-11-07T20:02:58Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Michael Cohen. 🙂 Nooo, not after Cohen claimed Trump was making racist comments It’s gonna be Lindsay Graham, mark my words. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/11 "2018-11-07T20:05:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who is stupid enough to take his place? There is _always_ someone waiting in the wings willing to do the dirty work. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/12 "2018-11-07T20:11:41Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Lindsey Graham since SC is a safe seat for the GOP and Trump probably told Nikki Haley the seat is hers if she wants it I’m reasonably certain Nikki Haley knows that Trump doesn’t get to select replacement Senators. And Graham doesn’t strike me as someone who would give up his nice little Senate gig. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/13 "2018-11-07T20:12:31Z")
trivia : Whitaker played TE for Iowa in the 1991 Rose bowl. Iowa lost 46-34 to Washington. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/14 "2018-11-07T20:12:44Z")
If Mueller is removed, Democrats in the House will definitely subpoena him and all his records publicly. Thank fuck they won the House. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/15 "2018-11-07T20:13:45Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I’m reasonably certain Nikki Haley knows that Trump doesn’t get to select replacement Senators. And Graham doesn’t strike me as someone who would give up his nice little Senate gig. Pshaw. He’s been campaigning for the job. ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/16 "2018-11-07T20:14:41Z")
Totally what an innocent man does. Totally. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/17 "2018-11-07T20:18:01Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I’m reasonably certain Nikki Haley knows that Trump doesn’t get to select replacement Senators. And Graham doesn’t strike me as someone who would give up his nice little Senate gig. Trump could strongly suggest to the governor of SC that he pick Haley and if he does give him a few favors . ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/18 "2018-11-07T20:18:34Z")
Classic Trump misdirection. Everyone’s talking about how he lost the house and his guy in Montana lost? Give 'em some other bulllshit to reset the news cycle! ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/19 "2018-11-07T20:21:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Pshaw. He’s been campaigning for the job. I am assuming you think going full partisan bulldog regarding Kavanaugh is campaigning for the job? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150/20 "2018-11-07T20:21:26Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Lindsey Graham since SC is a safe seat for the GOP and Trump probably told Nikki Haley the seat is hers if she wants it Graham previously said that firing Sessions would be “the beginning of the end of his presidency”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sessions-is-out/824150.md?page=2)