It is one of a slew of allegations relating to Donald Trump and an investigation into alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 US election, according to the BBC. It comes ahead of the former FBI chief’s testimony to the Senate ...
Read More »Obama-appointed US attorney fired by Trump after refusing to resign
“I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life,” Bharara tweeted. I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US ...
Read More »U.S. Attorney General asks 46 Obama-era attorneys to resign
Although U.S. attorneys are political appointees, and the request from Trump’s Justice Department is part of a routine process, the move came as a surprise. Not every new administration replaces all U.S. attorneys at once, Joinfo.com reports with reference to ...
Read More »SNL: Kate McKinnon’s Jeff Sessions sits bench with a box of chocolates as Forrest Gump
“My name’s Jeff, Jeff Sessions,” McKinnon told Leslie Jones while sitting on a bus bench. “I’m the attorney general of the whole United States.” “I always say life is like a box of chocolates,” McKinnon said, before adding, “Sure are ...
Read More »Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking – NY Times
Former American officials say they had two aims: to ensure that such meddling isn’t duplicated in future American or European elections, and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators, according to New York Times. American allies, including ...
Read More »US Attorney General met with Russian envoy twice last year
One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place in September in the senator’s office, at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend ...
Read More »Trump cabinet: US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions as attorney general
The confirmation follows a series of divisive hearings during which Democrats attacked Sessions’s record on civil rights, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. Democrat Elizabeth Warren was silenced after recalling historic allegations of racism against Jeff Sessions. The Alabama ...
Read More »Silencing Elizabeth Warren Backfires On Senate GOP
The rebuke of Warren came after the Massachusetts Democrat read a letter written 30 years ago by Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship, CNN reports. Warren ...
Read More »Democratic US Senator Elizabeth Warren Silenced Over Criticism of Sessions
The 30-year-old letter criticised Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump’s nomination for attorney general, according to the BBC. Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, said Ms Warren had broken senate rules by impugning the conduct of another senator. She subsequently read ...
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