Article snippet: After months of public and private pressure, Attorney General Clinton Foundation. Things may never be the same for Sessions or the Hillary Clinton. At a moment where Sessions’ leadership and credibility is being questioned – the president himself has openly pondered firing him, and Democrats are accusing him of lying about his knowledge of Russian contacts with the Trump campaign – the attorney general is giving the appearance that he’s bowing to the political demands of the president. The announcement of the new inquiry, coming on the eve of high-profile testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, had the immediate impact of subsuming news about Russia – including new information about meetings Sessions previously said he had no recollection of. But it also raised deeper concerns about the impartiality of the administration of justice. The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Watergate era. “President Trump seems to believe that, on a whim, he can bring pressure to bear on his enemies,” said Conyers, D-Mich. “I cannot overemphasize the danger this perspective poses to this republic.” Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, raised a similar concern on Twitter last night: “If the AG bends to pressure from President Trump and his allies, and appoints a special counsel to investigate Trump’s vanquished rival, it could spell the end of the DOJ as an independent institution.” Pressed on whether he has re... Link to the full article to read more