Bruce Green was quoted in an Atlantic article about what might happen if President Trump orders Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Trump could order Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Southern District’s investigation, but every legal expert I talked to said it was unlikely Sessions would follow such an order.
“In a corrupt, bizarre universe, in theory it could happen,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham University and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra affair. “This attorney general is a former U.S. attorney, he has acted completely honorably. In some matters people disagree with his policy, [such as]on criminal-justice issues, but he is not corrupt, he cares about the integrity of the office, I’m sure he would not shut down an obviously legitimate criminal investigation for political reasons, and if someone ordered him to do that, he would disobey or quit, I’m sure.”