A tale of two attorneys general
Alabama attorney Cameron Smith, a former aide to Sessions and a friend who runs the conservative R Street Institute in Washington, said the fight, when it comes, will be over what he sees as Sessions’ “fidelity to the law.” And after eight years of an Obama Justice Department, Smith said, that may seem like “hard-line whiplash.”
“It is not complicated,” Smith said. “He will look at what is the law, and he will enforce it.”
Sessions will take what he and Trump would call a law-and-order stand, and their Justice Department will be formidable. But the law is subject to interpretation, and states have rights. Don’t bet against the son of Manuel and Maria Becerra.