Attorney General Jeff Sessions had no conflict of interest problem in recommending that former F.B.I. Director Comey be fired. Sessions recused himself from participating in investigations regarding the last Presidential campaign, and obviously that did not include Comey's tenure at the F.B.I.
Some Democrats have said it does.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/11/jeff-sessions-is-in-deep-trouble-and-heres-why/?utm_term=.323c55f87492
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332956-schumer-sessions-cannot-help-pick-next-fbi-director
To obstruct justice would have required that Sessions get the lead investigator of the Russian campaign influence fired. The lead investigator is probably not the F.BI. Director. The F.B.I. Director orders investigations of all sorts to start simultaneously yet does not do the detecting work himself. Probably any competent F.B.I. official can continue an investigation such as the Russian probe. It is not as if firing former Director Comey actually obstructed anything.
The President can fire anyone in the Executive Branch in order to serve the interests of the nation. High ranking employees are not sinecured. If only a particular investigator is uniquely capable of continuing a timely, important investigation, rather than just about anyone in a department of government, then recomending that person be fired if the intent was to obstruct the investigation form proceeding, would be an obstruction of justice.
Some Democrats have said it does.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/11/jeff-sessions-is-in-deep-trouble-and-heres-why/?utm_term=.323c55f87492
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332956-schumer-sessions-cannot-help-pick-next-fbi-director
To obstruct justice would have required that Sessions get the lead investigator of the Russian campaign influence fired. The lead investigator is probably not the F.BI. Director. The F.B.I. Director orders investigations of all sorts to start simultaneously yet does not do the detecting work himself. Probably any competent F.B.I. official can continue an investigation such as the Russian probe. It is not as if firing former Director Comey actually obstructed anything.
The President can fire anyone in the Executive Branch in order to serve the interests of the nation. High ranking employees are not sinecured. If only a particular investigator is uniquely capable of continuing a timely, important investigation, rather than just about anyone in a department of government, then recomending that person be fired if the intent was to obstruct the investigation form proceeding, would be an obstruction of justice.
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