Opponents say Sessions shouldn't have recused himself from Russia investigation (al.com)

This article ran in the Feb 12th Huntsville Times with the title above. It has a different title on the Web site.


Should Jeff Sessions have recused himself from Russia investigation ?

Updated Feb 08, 2020; Posted Feb 08, 2020

By Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com

In a carefully choreographed U.S. Senate forum in Huntsville on Saturday, the sit-up-and-listen-closer question came from off the script.

The first question from the audience for four candidates at the forum was simply this: Should Jeff Sessions have recused himself from the Russia investigation and, if you had been in his position as U.S. attorney general, would you have done the same thing?
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The candidates – businessman Stanley Adair, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore – all agreed: No, he should not have.
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"I would not have (recused myself)," Byrne said in answering the question first. "I've read the Mueller report, I've read the IG report. I did not think there was any reason for Attorney General Sessions to recuse himself. But if he thought he needed to recuse himself, he should have resigned immediately so that President Trump had an attorney general to do his job completely.
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"No, he should not have recused himself," said Mooney, taking the microphone next. "I would not have recused myself. I'm not an attorney but I have read a number of the documents and feel very strongly that you serve at the pleasure of the president as an appointee in that type of position. The situation is clearly evident in our country that we need a unified fight against the radical left. The attacks that were made and the duplicity and dishonesty of the FBI were totally evident. It's a sad characterization of an agency that is supposed to be protecting American people."
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more: https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2020/02/should-jeff-sessions-have-recused-himself-from-russia-investigation.html


Just to remind those who thought Roy Moore was the worst AL could come up with -- the Uglican bench is deep here.