Andrew Kent was quoted in a Mother Jones article about Jeff Sessions’ possible violation of his pledge to recuse himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation.
“The general, overarching rule about recusal is that a government official should recuse, especially a prosecutor should recuse, when a reasonable person might question the propriety of their involvement and their impartiality,” says Andrew Kent, an expert in professional responsibility and legal ethics at Fordham University School of Law. He points to Sessions’ role in Comey’s ouster as the clearest breach of his pledge. “The more we learn, the worse it looks for Sessions, I think, on the firing of Comey,” he says. “I don’t really have a good explanation of how he could have anything to do with that.”
