Federal judge rules Jeff Sessions must release evidence against himself in Russia scandal

| 10:02 pm EDT June 12, 2017
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Even though he’s in charge of the law when it comes to the Executive Branch, Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t immune to the rulings of the Judicial Branch. And so one day before Sessions is set to rather uncomfortably testify in public before Congress about the Trump-Russia scandal, a federal judge has ruled that Sessions must release evidence against himself.

When Jeff Sessions filled out his SF-86 security clearance form in order to become Attorney General, he failed to list his numerous secret meetings with the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during his time with the Donald Trump campaign. Now a federal judge has ruled that Sessions must make that page of his security form public, according to CNN (link). This will serve to publicly embarrass Sessions and call attention to the fact that he lied on the form.

This comes at a time when Jeff Sessions is already just barely hanging onto his job. He’s already had to recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, then got himself into trouble by trying to partially renege on that recusal. Sessions has also offered his resignation to Donald Trump, which as of yet, has not been accepted. Several members of Congress are now calling for Sessions to resign as well. And now he heads into public testimony that he had been going out of his way to try to avoid.

That same CNN report also reveals that the same federal judge has ruled that the White House must turn over any records relating to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ alleged attempt at obstructing to the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. And so even as the Trump administration tries to double down on simply not following the law, and the Special Counsel revs up its investigation, the court system is making its own moves to carve up the Trump administration for its lawless behavior. Follow Palmer Report on Facebook and Twitter.