This is a Cato Special Podcast. I'm Caleb Brown.

Jeff Sessions is out as Attorney General resigning at the request of the President.

Sessions was an ardent drug warrior, an opponent of broadly welcoming immigration policies

and a supporter of the government-led theft that is civil asset forfeiture.

What does his departure mean for those policies and for Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation?

Cato's Alex Narasta and Trevor Burris comment.

Well, I don't think anyone is shocked about this. He's been berated by the president for months and months and months now in a way that was pretty astounding to watch a president berate one of his own members of his cabinet.

So no one's surprised the big question now is who's going to be nominated next and

whether or not things are going to change.

And I think one of the other big questions is how are conservatives in the Senate and the House and across the United States going to react to this for a long time they defended Jeff Sessions saying he's a you you know, a stalwart conservative.

He's there to keep the president in line.

We may not trust Trump, but we trust Jeff Sessions.

And, you know, Lindsey Graham said there's going to be hell to pay.

It'll be the end, the beginning of the end of Trump's administration if he fires Jeff

Sessions. Well, let's see if that's actually real. I mean, I doubt it. But let's see how these

principal conservatives actually react now that Jeff Sessions is out.

Now in general Jeff Sessions was a drug warrior.

He was a staunch opponent of illegal immigration.

He wanted to vigorously enforce all of the laws associated with immigration.

He opposed all manner of criminal justice reforms and like most of his

predecessors in the attorney general's office a big proponent of civil asset

forfeiture.

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