The year was 1999. President Bill Clinton had been embroiled in years of Republican-generated scandal involving an extra-marital affair he had had. Republicans were pushing for impeachment of the president on the basis that he had mislead and perjured himself when he had been asked about this reported affair with a staff intern. Republicans, many of whom would turn out to be moral hypocrites in their own right, wanted to hang the perjury (and therefore “obstruction of justice”) charge on President Clinton’s head and, in doing so, force him to resign. The charges were thin to say the least, and the obstruction charge was concerning whether or not the president had engaged in an affair. This is what Alabama Republican Jefferson Beauregard Sessions had to say:
The President is at the helm of the executive branch of the Government, which is charged with enforcing the law. What use is it for the Congress to make the law and the courts to interpret the law, if the President does not enforce it? We must bring the power of the three branches of government back into balance. Otherwise, it is a threat to the structure of the Government. Similarly, the law should be applied to each citizen equally. Otherwise, it is a breach of the public trust. Clearly, the public good is served by removing this President.
To be more of a hypocrite, Jeff Sessions would have to combine his genes with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.