Jeff Sessions, an archconservative former Alabama senator, has resigned as Attorney General at the request of the Trump administration, just one day after the midterm elections. Trump has reportedly been itching to push out Sessions for months, but was advised to wait until after the popular vote. He has wasted no time.
In many ways, Session was a Trump loyalist. He helped implement the president's brutal immigration policies, attempting to rescind the DACA bill, which extended protection from deportation to over 700,000 young people who were brought to the US undocumented as children, and implementing the monstrously cruel “zero tolerance” border policy that separated migrant families at the border, and that may have effectively orphaned scores of children.
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