Nearly 2000 Lawyers ask Jeff Sessions be Disbarred

[laserhaas]

Source: Alabama Political Reporter

MONTGOMERY Almost 2,000 attorneys from across the US have signed on to a complaint addressed to the Alabama State Bar Disciplinary Committee asking that Attorney General Jeff Session be disbarred from the Alabama State Bar.

The complaint, filed by the Lawyers for Good Government, alleges that Sessions should be disbarred for violating professional conduct standards in the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct. The allegations stem from Sessions testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Senate confirmation for US Attorney General.


The complaint states that Sessions behaved dishonestly and deceitfully when he testified that he did not have communications with the Russians.

Earlier this month, revelations surfaced that Sessions had contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States. The ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and Sessions met twice during the peak of the 2016 presidential race when Sessions was serving as a surrogate for then-candidate Donald Trumps presidential campaign.

Read more: http://www.alreporter.com/2017/03/28/nearly-2000-lawyers-ask-sessions-disbarred/

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Let's back up these brave attorneys at law, with a citizens petition to join their noble quest.

It's about time the beltway understands we want a pure U.S.A.G.

Link to tweet

[progree]

1. That's quite a healthy number (nt)

[laserhaas]

11. Surprising

And cool

[mpcamb]

54. Why doesn't someone take that sawed-off treasonous dirtbag to court?

[laserhaas]

60. If State of Alabama does the right thing...someone can

Just remember, Alabama is always so far right, Democratic party won't help those running for Senate.

And Governor Siegelman was ....destroyed

[OnDoutside]

2. It could be a moot point if Flynn comes through as a

State witness.

[laserhaas]

22. Who would he be testifying against?

They're messing up...so much....it is hard to keep up.

[OnDoutside]

29. If our assumption that Sessions was in the thick of it, I would expect Flynn to implicate him too.

[Whiskeytide]

53. Not as far as I'm concerned...

... I don't want him coming back to Alabama and practicing law. He's an embarrassment.

[laserhaas]

55. Are there any reports on Governor Siegelman?

Was booted off FB and lost touch

[laserhaas]

56. Never mind...have the answer

Released in February

[OnDoutside]

57. Going back to Alabama might be the least of his problems.

[laserhaas]

58. True that!

[Sculpin Beauregard]

3. GOOD!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

[laserhaas]

4. Added a Change.Org Petition

We can sign and join these brave counsels.

[Borchkins]

26. Signed it!

[laserhaas]

31. Way to go

Tell (push) your friends.too 😎

[Tactical Peek]

5. Just be sure they get the right perpetrator.

[laserhaas]

6. Ah..ha ha ..heh.. Good One

You gits a rare 3 Smiley Award

[murielm99]

8. Awww...

I liked Granny.

[laserhaas]

18. Yup...this compare dang near makes Sessions

Look cute

[CountAllVotes]

27. This little weasel of a man needs to GO

and the sooner the better! Good riddance!!!

[laserhaas]

30. A...friggen...men

A horrible pick...to begin with.

[tenorly]

35. As they say in the Deep South though:

The screwed can't sue.

Little Blanche Dubois there didn't become an accomplice in all this without either covering his tracks, or making sure someone with God's unlisted phone number has his back, I promise you that.

This is how solid nations slide into kleptocracies.

[laserhaas]

36. Ha Ha...I cant give you my 3 Smiley Award for this one

It is so apropos...to me

[tenorly]

37. Likewise! But would that none of it were true.

[laserhaas]

39. It ain't over yet. Everyone thinks I'm a joke; cause I refuse

to surrender to Mitt and quit.

But no one has paid attention to how much damage my fighting has done

[tenorly]

40. And right you are.

I remember October 2012. I remember all to well how everyone and their brother in the media, at work, etc, was oh so sure Robmey had it in the bag - until the voters had their say.

Don't ever let anyone talk you out of being tenacious. Qui patitur vincit, my good man.

[laserhaas]

42. Thanks!.. They say you can't be them

But I believe it is "them" saying such.

We've kicked plenty of ass;
but no one has paid too much attention..

Yet

[sdfernando]

51. Don't insult Granny like that!

The Clampetts were very good people! that other one on the left, not so much.

[laserhaas]

52. LOL

[laserhaas]

7. Can someone provide an Opensource pic of Sessions?

Prefer a photoshop red circle/line thru

Or a red disbar across his face

THANKS...im on cell with no ability

[Hortensis]

9. Here's the only one I found by itself, Laserhaas.

[laserhaas]

10. Cool

Thanks

[ananda]

12. Done!

..

[laserhaas]

15. Thanks

[yuiyoshida]

13. ON BEHALF of ALL THE STATES THAT HAVE LEGALIZED MEDICAL MARIJUANA

please let it be so!!!

[laserhaas]

16. Cool idea..a new petition

Those who toke ...call Sessions a joke

[Cha]

14. seesions deserves to be disbarred

[laserhaas]

17. Most USAGs do

Including Holder and Lynch

[Dustlawyer]

19. 2001 now!

We cannot trust him in one of the most important positions in government!

[laserhaas]

20. Way COOL!

[laserhaas]

21. Do you have a link to the lawyers complaint?

Dont think it was in the article

[Dustlawyer]

25. It is, you have to look for it, but it is there.

[laserhaas]

28. Im on my mobile

Will check..later....to see if PC presents different view

[Gothmog]

23. Sessions is a disgrace to the profession

[laserhaas]

24. At least he showed who he is

Straight out of the gate

[Sunlei]

32. 3 or 4 of those "lied to get confirmed" need to be kicked out NOW. Republicans should be ashamed!

[laserhaas]

33. When you are a rogue, foaming at the mouth for a fat cat

Lying is the least of your bad faith acts

[Sunlei]

34. Republicans needed to shut up Yates.

[laserhaas]

38. Yates and Preet should thank their lucky stars

Trump diss'd them....so

They're both tools of special interests;
but that's washed away by The Donald's haughty ways.

[Sunlei]

41. A leading candidate to replace Bharara on Trump's short list is former Fox News chief Roger Ailess

A leading candidate to replace Bharara on Trump's short list is former Fox News chief Roger Ailes’s personal lawyer Marc Mukasey.

[laserhaas]

43. Mukasey was a tool..also

A judge actually worth his salt yelled out "tyrant" to USAG Mukasey...3 times.

They destroyed Judge Sanders career...too

[laserhaas]

44. ACLU also filed a COMPLAINT for disbar

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-files-ethics-complaint-against-attorney-general-sessions-false-statements-made-during

[laserhaas]

45. FINALLY ...found a link (purportedly) to the COMPLAINT

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7GuEzVb2c1ralJjdkFfeXEwNk0/view

[laserhaas]

46. Do ppl prefer UPDATES in comment section?

Or would most rather an update in the material section?

(to me....the glaring red "edit" begs for review of the multiple versions...so that's why I hesitate to update)

[laserhaas]

47. Links came from "Snopes" so I don't know how honorable

Seems a little biased ...to me

[laserhaas]

48. Snoopes linked to a WaPo version of ACLU

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/03/10/aclu-files-ethics-complaint-against-sessions-over-communications-with-russian-ambassador/?utm_term=.f074668f3384

[laserhaas]

49. This Wapo story has more grit on the nasty detsils

During the Jan. 10 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked Sessions what he’ll do if “anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign” had communications with the Russian government.

I’m not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians,” Sessions said.

Sessions submitted written statements a week later in response to questions by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.). Leahy asked: “Several of the president-elect’s nominees or senior advisers have Russian ties. Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after Election Day?”

Sessions’s response: “No.”

[laserhaas]

50. Seems cut and dry..Sessions lied

Cant have the top lawyer gor DOJ ...be unfit

Whether oops or out right lie

Time for bye bye

[L. Coyote]

59. Many millions of people ask that perjury be prosecuted. Send him to jail for his crime.

Or does Trump's Presidency mark the end of the rule of law?

How many Cabinet members committed perjury during confirmation hearings? Offhand I know of three, Flynn, Sessions, and Pruitt. Jail them all.

[laserhaas]

61. Ha Ha ....are ya being rhetorical?

Or feigning facetiously...

[madville]

62. Isn't that part of the AG job?

I didn't think an AG was officially confirmed until petitions to be disbarred had been filed in their home state. Every AG I can think of has had groups attempt to disbar them, can't recall one ever being successful. I'm just kidding of course but opposition groups always file these petitions, Lynch and Holder had attempts made against them as well.

I think Sessions gave himself enough cover by "clarifying" after the fact that he meant he had never met Russian officials as a member of the campaign, but as a member of the Senate commitee. To make the case for perjury they would have to be able to prove he knowingly stated what he did to mislead but he has already played the "oops, awww shucks, I should have said as a campaign member, my bad" card.

[laserhaas]

63. We'll have to look at the specifics

I dont think they are as ambiguous as you infer

[laserhaas]

64. Sessions stated (erroneously) he han no communications

with Russia, during the campaign.

He was neing less than totally candid; which is a two step vernacular to dodge the fact ...he did not tell the truth.

Link to tweet

[laserhaas]

65. Legal Standard for Perjury charge

Making a false statement under oath before Congress is a crime punishable by five years imprisonment when three tests are satisfied: (1) The statement is false, (2) it concerns a material fact, not a minor or incidental one, and (3) the speaker has made the statement willfully and knowingly. The first two are not debatable. Sessions admitted to the meetings with the Russian ambassador. And it was material: Russia’s meddling in the election and whether Trump aides had a role in it has been front and center to Congress.