Wake Up Call: Trump Lawyer Pushed Against Sessions’ Recusal, Report Says

• President Donald Trump is said to have ordered top White House lawyer Don McGahn last spring to lobby Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian election meddling. That information could prove important to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether Trump tried to obstruct the investigation. ( Bloomberg ) ( New York Times )

• Sessions, whose decision to recuse himself led to the appointment of Mueller and his team of prosecutors, on Thursday threw a wet blanket on states’ fledgling pot industry by rescinding an Obama-era policy that helped states legalize recreational ...