Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from any investigation into alleged Russian interference in the presidential election.

He announced the move at a press conference yesterday, less than 24 hours after the Washington Post reported that he had met with the Russian ambassador to the US not once, but twice, in the past year.

"I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States."

Sessions went on to deny any wrongdoing in regards to his meeting with the Russian ambassador, and said that those meetings were entirely within his capacity as a US Senator - not as a Trump campaign surrogate.

But even so - Democrats on Capitol Hill are still calling for his resignation.

-Thom

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Article: "Doctor Death Penalty Bill Advances In Montana House".

Article: "Sean Spicer used to be the White House Easter Bunny" by Kelsey Weekman.

Book: Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Däniken.

Article: "Cellphone Radiation Exposure Fact Sheet Draft Released By California Health Officials" by CBS SF.

Article: "Arkansas Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Ban Howard Zinn From Classrooms" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "Dow Jones breaks through 21,000 mark" by BBC.

Article: "US banks hit brakes on lending after Trump election" by Alistair Gray.

Article: "What happens if you lie to Congress" by Ivan Levingston.

Article: ""We cannot find the bill": inside the frantic hunt for the GOP Obamacare replacement" by Sarah Kliff.

Article: "Rand Paul protests outside room where House Republicans are hammering out Obamacare replacement" by David Weigel.

Article: "Trump's green assault off to fast start" by Andrew Restuccia.

Article: "Senate Republicans aim to gut debit-card safeguards" by Kathy Kristof.

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886

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Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "F.B.I. Investigating Kansas Shooting of Indian Men as Hate Crime" by Liam Stack.

Article: "A rising tide lifts all boats" by Wikipedia.

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Book: The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction - and What This Means Today by Dan Sisson with Thom Hartmann

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Site: "IDNYC Municipal ID Card".

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Mike Pence used private email as governor, and it got hacked" by Matthew Yglesias.

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Article: "Jason Chaffetz is still investigating Hillary Clinton's emails" by Matthew Daly.

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Article: "US banks hit brakes on lending after Trump election" by Alistair Gray.

Article: "Japan returns to inflation for first time since 2015" by Robin Harding.

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Article: "Houston Defies State Law, Refuses to Arrest People for Pot, Govt Furious" by Justin Gardner.

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Article: "President Trump tells the FEC he qualifies as a candidate for 2020" by Matea Gold.

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Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

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Book: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt.

Article: "COINTELPRO" by Wikipedia.

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Book: The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger.

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Article: "Sessions did not disclose meetings with Russian ambassador during Trump campaign" by Sabrina Siddiqui.

Article: "G.O.P. Accused of Playing 'Hide-and-Seek' With Obamacare Replacement Bill" by Robert Pear.

Article: "4 things to expect from the next GOP Obamacare replacement bill" by Sarah Kliff.

Article: "Trump's first executive action: Cancel Obama's mortgage premium cuts" by Gregory Korte.

Article: "Trump Orders Review of Obama-Era Clean Streams Rule" by Jill Colvin.

Article: "Trump's EPA chief let an oil company edit his emails" by VICE News.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "2016 Texas Presidential Election Results" by AP.

Article: "Trump points to job creation as new reason for military buildup" by Rob Garver.

Event: March 25, 2017: "Bernalillo County, NM Elections".

Site: "Rusty L Pearce for DPNM Chair 2017".

Article: "Kathleen Burke for DPNM Vice Chair 2017".

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

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Book: Memoirs by David Rockefeller.

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Article: "Lena Dunham Wants to Improve Men by Making White Straight Men Extinct" by Lukas Mikelionis.

Article: "Single-Payer Health Care Bill Introduced In California Senate" by Anna Gorman.

Article: "Single Payer on The March" by Lambert Strether.

Bill: "H.R.621 - Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2017" by Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3].

Bill: "H.R.622 - Local Enforcement for Local Lands Act" by Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3].

Article: "Zinke Confirmation Threatens Our Public Lands" by Michael Brune.

Book: Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar.

Article: "Steven Mnuchin And The Tax-haven Divide" by Sheelah Kolhatkar.

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Article: "Michael Collins" by Wikipedia.

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