Trump Is Giving ‘The Fix Was In’ New Meaning |
Trump Is Giving ‘The Fix Was In’ New Meaning
By Emily Bazelon and David French
Ms. Bazelon is a staff writer at The Times Magazine and the Opinion section. Mr. French is an Opinion columnist. They both hold law degrees.
Emily Bazelon: Hi, David. Happy May! I know you got to spend some time with your grandchildren last weekend and that’s a cheering sign for how your month is going.
I didn’t expect to start us off with an homage to Jeff Sessions, but the current Trump administration occasions many oddities. I’m thinking about Sessions because when he was Trump’s first attorney general, he issued a memo in 2017 barring the Justice Department from settling lawsuits by directing payments to third parties — people or........