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Lifer
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Just look at this guy he looks like a Nazi Storm Trooper. Its like you know when you look as someone and you say that guys is a raging asshole. Well...

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For a minute I thought Michael Chiklis had just let himself go.
 
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Lifer
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How has no one legally challenged this appointment yet? Sessions didn't resign. He was effectively fired as his letter states. It was at Trump's request.
 
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MomentsofSanity said:
How has no one legally challenged this appointment yet? Sessions didn't resign. He was effectively fired as his letter states. It was at Trump's request.
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I'm wondering why he finally resigned, as far as I know Trump has been asking Sessions to resign all along. Whats changed did Jeff just give in finally or is there something else going on?
 
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Lifer
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Jhhnn said:
That was back in the beginning when he volunteered a lie during his confirmation hearing. Besides that, Trump needed time to groom a perfect sycophant as his "temporary" replacement.
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You know who you're replying to, right? He only stops derping long enough to herp.
 
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Lifer
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skull said:
I'm wondering why he finally resigned, as far as I know Trump has been asking Sessions to resign all along. Whats changed did Jeff just give in finally or is there something else going on?
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Trump stopped asking and told him that if he didn't resign he would be fired. Sessions says as much in his resignation letter.
 
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SMOGZINN said:
Trump stopped asking and told him that if he didn't resign he would be fired. Sessions says as much in his resignation letter.
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Still though in this case getting fired is standing up for something, not like getting canned for doing something wrong.
 
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Lifer
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skull said:
Still though in this case getting fired is standing up for something, not like getting canned for doing something wrong.
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He would almost certainly have been fired with cause. The cause would be lame, and most of us would not agree with it, but I'm betting he would end up being fired for insubordination. That would cause him to lose all his benefits.
 
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SMOGZINN said:
He would almost certainly have been fired with cause. The cause would be lame, and most of us would not agree with it, but I'm betting he would end up being fired for insubordination. That would cause him to lose all his benefits.
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Being fired for cause is pretty serious. It's not simply at Trump's discretion, although I imagine he could certainly make up cause.
 
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Lifer
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interchange said:
Being fired for cause is pretty serious. It's not simply at Trump's discretion, although I imagine he could certainly make up cause.
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It is serious, but Trump is kind of the final arbiter in the executive branch for that sort of thing. Sessions could sue, and might or might not win, but doing so could easily cost more then the benefits are worth.
 
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SMOGZINN said:
He would almost certainly have been fired with cause. The cause would be lame, and most of us would not agree with it, but I'm betting he would end up being fired for insubordination. That would cause him to lose all his benefits.
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Sessions was a Senator for 20 years & has obviously accrued benefits from it that Trump's actions can't touch. He may even have been double dipping as AG for all we know.
 
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With the exception of congressional aides the government is employed by the potus.
 
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Jhhnn

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who? said:
With the exception of congressional aides the government is employed by the potus.
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Yeh, but the rules don't allow for Sessions to be stripped of his pension-

Denies Congressional retirement benefits to Members of Congress who are convicted of bribery, perjury, conspiracy or other related crimes in the course of carrying out their official duties as a Member of Congress.
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See pension accountability-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Leadership_and_Open_Government_Act

Trump firing him wouldn't affect that because it would involve things that transpired after Sessions left Congress. At least it seems that way to me.
 
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