Jeff Sessions faces a tough job as the new attorney general — and Trump isn’t making it any easier

John Yoo quoted by Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, 2017

“Someone has to tell the president that what he is doing is illegal or unconstitutional, even when Trump’s instincts and his political advisors are pushing for it. Sessions is the only person in the administration now who can do that, tell the president no. We will have to see how that plays out.”