Sen. Sessions: No, We Are Not Going To Impeach Obama

United States Senator Jeff Sessions (Republican of Alabama) asks questions of U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey, U.S. Army, as they deliver testimony ... United States Senator Jeff Sessions (Republican of Alabama) asks questions of U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey, U.S. Army, as they deliver testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services on the U.S. policy towards Iraq and Syria and the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Hagel and Dempsey Testify on ISIL, Washington D.C, America - 16 Sep 2014 (Rex Features via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is one of the most outspoken opponents of immigration reform and has been a loud critic of President Barack Obama’s decision to take executive action on immigration, but even Sessions doesn’t think impeaching the president would be a good idea.

“No, we are not going to impeach or have a move to impeach,” Sessions said at an event at The Heritage Foundation on Friday according to The Hill. “The president has certain powers. We truly believe, and I think it’s accurate to say he abused those powers.”

A number of Republicans have raised the prospect of Obama getting impeached over his recent executive action move. As TPM flagged on Thursday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) suggested that Obama could face impeachment or even jail time if he went through with the executive action move.

Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday said that “nobody’s talking about impeachment” concerning Obama.

Actually, there’s a list of Republican lawmakers and conservative figures who have raised the idea of impeaching Obama lately.

Watch Sessions’s speech below.

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