The context here is that Senate Republicans appear to be warming to the idea. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) once said there would be “holy hell” to pay if Trump fired his attorney general; now he says Trump is entitled to an attorney general he trusts. There would be two main dominoes to fall after Sessions resigns or is removed:Trump may pick an acting attorney general, and ... And while Senate Republicans are warming to the idea of replacing Sessions, that doesn’t mean they will give Trump carte blanche. Another interesting subplot is whether the new attorney general or acting attorney general might also insert themselves in the Cohen probe, in which the former Trump attorney has just implicated the president in campaign-finance violations over hush-money payments.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2018 18:00 UTC