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Ben Sasse, Susan Collins Warn Trump About Firing Jeff Sessions

The following article by Niels Lesniewski was posted on the Roll Call website August 23, 2018:

Sen. Ben Sasse said he couldn’t envision voting for a new attorney general if Jeff Sessions is fired for doing his job. Credit: Bill Clark, CQ Roll Call file photo

Republican senators grew increasingly vocal in their warnings to President Donald Trump if he fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, including threats not to vote for a replacement.

Sen. Ben Sasse came to the floor Thursday afternoon to read into the Congressional Record the statement that Sessions, a former Alabama senator well-liked by his former colleagues, issued in response to criticism from Trump.

Sessions was highlighting the independence of the Justice Department, and Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, wanted it to be perfectly clear that he would have the attorney general’s back.

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