Congressional Black Caucus calls for resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions

The Congressional Black Caucus – the political organization made up of the African American members of the United States Congress – has called for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The Congressional Black Caucus said in a statement:
 “Attorney General Sessions is unfit to serve as the top law enforcement official in the nation and should resign from the position immediately. As the old saying goes, ‘fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.’ Attorney General Sessions is treating Congress and the American people like fools.”

The Caucus voted on whether or not to publicly call for Sessions to step down even before it had been revealed on Friday that, once again, Sessions had not been truthful under oath.

The Congressional Black Caucus went on to say of those revelations:
 “Every day the Department of Justice prosecutes people for lying under oath, yet the man who leads the department has lied under oath on more than one occasion.”

The embattled Attorney General continues to be under increased pressure and scrutiny after U.S. President Donald Trump told the New York Times in an interview last week, that he would not have appointed Sessions to be attorney general if he knew Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
On Monday, Trump piled on, referring to Sessions’ status as “beleaguered” in a Twitter post.

Sessions insists that he will remain on as Attorney General.