Jeff Sessions said that people who commit perjury must be removed from office - ThinkPRogress

[Bill USA]

https://thinkprogress.org/jeff-sessions-said-that-people-who-commit-perjury-must-be-removed-from-office-135edbfb84d9#.wzyeqzw6r

The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke to Russia’s ambassador twice last year, despite testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee that “I did not have communications with the Russians.”

Eighteen years ago, however, then-Sen. Sessions (R-AL) was called upon to judge a president who, he believed, had lied under oath. As political scientist Scott Lemieux notes, Sessions did not look kindly on President Bill Clinton during that president’s impeachment.

It now appears very likely that Sessions committed the very same crime he once voted to convict President Clinton of. The federal perjury statute forbids anyone who has “taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person” from “willfully and contrary to such oath” making a statement on “any material matter which he does not believe to be true.”

There is, to be fair, some wiggle room in this statute. To convict Sessions, for example, a prosecutor would have to prove that Sessions did not believe that his reportedly false statements about “the Russians” to be true. Thus, if Sessions had somehow forgotten about those meetings, that would provide him with a defense.
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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. WHy does any of this matter if half of the fucking country doesnt care, is OK with

lying under oath as long as a republican did it.

Is OK with treason as long as a republican did it?

I cant stand to be in the same room with these people anymore.

[BeckyDem]

2. Look at that, I agree with Jeffy Sessions. Bye bye!

[onecaliberal]

3. He should be held to the same standard he thinks other should be held to. Convict. Take his license