Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 | 2 a.m.
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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned by request after a tenure of 21 months, never regretting his recusal from supervising Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe. President Donald Trump frequently said that Sessions abandoned his leadership of the Justice Department by recusing himself and was unable to properly supervise FBI operations as a result.
Whoever is Sessions’ successor shouldn’t fire Mueller. And more importantly, the person nominated and confirmed must know and understand that he or she runs the Justice Department, an agency that is part of the executive branch of the government, and not an entity unto itself.
