Once-loyal Alabama delegation gives Sessions the cold shoulder

[hlthe2b]

Once-loyal Alabama delegation gives Sessions the cold shoulder

The attorney general could once count on his fellow Alabamians to publicly defend him. That seems no longer the case.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/27/alabama-delegation-jeff-sessions-support-797865

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In recent days, Trump has called his attorney general “missing in action” and “scared stiff” for his stewardship of the Justice Department. He said in a Fox News interview that Sessions failed to take control of the Justice Department when he took the top job. Sessions responded with a rare statement implicitly rebuking the attack: “I took control of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in.” And he said the agency “will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”

Amid this latest confrontation, not one member of the House delegation from Alabama has tweeted a word of support for Sessions except Rep. Gary Palmer, who responded only to what he claimed was negative media attention and publicly defended the attorney general. POLITICO reached out to all six GOP House members from the state and only Palmer responded before publication. --snip--
A source familiar with the ongoing dispute said the absence of a more aggressive public effort to back Sessions shouldn’t be read as an erosion of support. Rather, those who once made public declarations had now simply resorted to private calls, choosing not to elevate an intraparty dispute in the waning weeks of the campaign. Those calls came from senators, conservative leaders and law enforcement groups, the source said.

In fact, speculation that Sessions might resign amid the Trump browbeating grew so sharply last week that Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called into the White House while Sessions was in the Oval Office for a meeting on prison reform. According to a source briefed on the meeting, a note was brought into the Oval Office conveying an urgent message from Hatch to Sessions urging him not to resign. Asked about the episode, a Hatch spokesman simply said, “Senator Hatch called the attorney General last week to offer encouragement.”
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State party officials, too, have gone silent on Sessions. State GOP Chairman Terry Lathan, who proactively defended Sessions during Trump's 2017 attacks, has kept silent this time. But after this story was published, she said she didn't initially respond to inquiries because had been tied up with Republican party events and added that Sessions is "highly respected."

“Alabama is in a unique situation as President Trump consistently has the highest state approval ratings with us and home state Attorney General Sessions has always been highly respected by Alabamians," Lathan said. "He has carried out President Trump's strong law and order agenda from day one. While there seems to be a difference of opinion between them on recusal, they have the same focused policy agenda."

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. I don't care anymore about anyone in rumps' cabinet...they are all corrupt, and morally...

bankrupt.

[hlthe2b]

2. None of us give a damn about Sessions, EXCEPT the harm to Mueller investigation

and that threat is very very real and increasing.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Really. And this is the next serious test of the so called republican claims that they ...

wish to get to the bottom of any criminal wrongdoing by rump (and/or his cronies)...we'll see just how dedicated they truly are to the law. Mueller is among the very very very few persons I trust now, being that he's not yakking it up or otherwise, but simply doing his job.

Take care.

[Solly Mack]

3. I don't feel bad for Sessions. He's scum even if the other scum no longer wish to play with him.

Long before this day I thought Sessions garbage. But for a long while now - and forever more - I see crying children whenever I think of Sessions. His all too willing, even joyfully carried out action of stealing children - many will never see their parents again - that's what I see when I think the name Sessions.

[Cosmocat]

5. Its clear the senate does not have his back anymore

the spinelessness of the republican politicians knows no depth - for all their tough talk, they fold like deck chairs.