JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vigorously pushed President Donald Trump’s agenda at the Justice Department, and before that, spent 20 years championing conservative causes in the Senate. Yet as Sessions enters what may be the final stretch of his tenure, those efforts are at risk of being eclipsed by his boss’ relentless verbal jabs that have made the attorney general seem like a perpetual presidential punching bag. It’s a role Sessions never sought but perhaps could have anticipated. The steady diatribes , most recently a tweet excoriating Sessions for the federal indictments of two Republican congressmen, reflect Trump’s single-minded outrage over the special counsel’s Russia investigation. And they are all the more striking because Sessions is the cabinet member most clearly aligned with Trump’s values. The treatment has largely overshadowed the attorney general’s work on violent crime, illegal immigration and opioid addiction, clouding a legacy that in other times would be more broadly cheered in conservative circles.”
-The Associated Press, “Trump’s Jabs at Sessions Could Eclipse AG’s Accomplishments,” The New York Times online, September 10, 2018