By Burgess Everett and Eliana Johnson
POLITICO
September 12, 2018
Senate Republicans are in a jam when it comes to Jeff Sessions.
While resigned to President Donald Trump firing the attorney general after the midterm elections, they suspect that perhaps only a sitting senator could win confirmation as Sessions’ successor — that is, someone they could trust not to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. But no one from their ranks seems to want the job.