We’re a week removed from the mid-term election and somehow that event managed to not dominate the nation’s focus. Not to be outdone, the Trump administration took control of the news cycle with the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the President’s request. The move comes as no surprise to those keeping up with the White House over the past year. What’s more shocking is that Sessions lasted this long in the administration.
Sessions proved himself to be one of the most loyal appointees to President Trump. He was the first to endorse Trump’s presidential run when most of the Republican Party was in favor of a more traditional presidential candidate. 
As Attorney General, Sessions happily pushed forward many of Trump’s most controversial policies, most notably in immigration, taking it upon himself this summer to go to the border and announce the plan to separate migrant children from families. So what led to the turmoil between Trump and Sessions?
The clearest answer would be Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the Russian investigation in the summer of 2017. Since then, the relationship between the two has been strained. Trump repeatedly voiced his frustration with Sessions in public after the recusal more or less confirming that his time as Attorney General was soon coming to an end. So here we are today with Sessions out and Matthew Whitaker in as the Acting Attorney General.
Whitaker now is in charge of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation probe. It was clear that Sessions was not prepared to do what Whitaker must for the President.
“I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that AG doesn’t fire Mueller, but he just reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt,” Whitaker said in 2017.
It seems as if Whitaker is in position to make his prediction a reality.
The people of this country feel the same way. After Sessions’ resignation, protests erupted across the country in support of Mueller and his investigation. Sessions being forced out could signal further the diminishing power of the law in this administration.
While Sessions being out of his position could make him more prone to cooperate with Mueller’s investigation, it’s clear that the forces against Mueller have only grown stronger.