It is now reasonable to assume that Trump has a bias to interfere with the administration of justice. Once Sessions takes his leave, think of all the pledges the next nominee for attorney general will have to make to convince the Senate that he or she will not bow to the pressures of the president.

For starters, the nominee will probably have to agree to never meet privately with the president and never speak with him on the phone without a note-taker listening in. There are many questions to answer: How will the nominee commit to ensuring that the biases of this president will be sufficiently disregarded so that prosecutions remain timely and just? How will the nominee guarantee that viable prosecutions will not be ignored, delayed or otherwise manipulated to help Republicans in the next campaign? How will the Senate be reassured that the Justice Department is walled off from the president’s corrupt intentions? How will the nominee go about securing the integrity of the American judicial system and preventing presidential misuse of law enforcement and prosecutions? The fact that such questions even have to be asked is stunning. Every American should be alarmed.

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And oh, by the way, I’ve been in the swamp for 35 years, and it might be news to Trump, but I do not believe there is one senator in either party who expects or wants the Justice Department to be used in furtherance of partisan political gain. Nobody wants to go where Trump’s tweets confirm he already is. The Post’s David Ignatius said it well in his tweet Monday, “Politicizing justice is — let’s just say it — lawlessness.”