Senate Judiciary Dems Call For Sessions Hearing, Inspector General Probe
By MATT SHUHAM Published MARCH 3, 2017, 5:58 PM EDT
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committees called on the committee’s chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), to schedule a hearing for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “clear the air” regarding his contact with the Russian ambassador and recusal from campaign-related investigations.
A handful of senators from the committee also called on the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate Sessions’ recusal decision.
In a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, five of the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), called for the inspector general to investigate Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from “any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.”
Sessions recused himself from campaign-related matters after the Washington Post reported that he had met twice with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the 2016 campaign.
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