Rick HasenVerified account

This is not to say Sessions could be successfully prosecuted for perjury. Good chance he couldn't. But he's damaged politically

presumes he's telling the truth abt reason for mtg the ambassador. If he did discuss the election, perjury much more likely.

put another way, unless it can be proved he is lying about reason for mtg, no chance of perjury

nothing to parse. "Did you discuss campaign? No." End of story. Even the new McCarthyites on the left can figure that out.

As to a question that asked about campaign talks. Rule 1: you don't ignore the question when assessing accuracy of the answer.

.@Barnes_Law Of course not. But his answer was unequivocal about no contact with the Russians. Hence, when you're parsing you're losing.

I'm old enough to remember when the right emphasized textualism.

I'm old enough to remember when the left were not McCarthyite Russia-phobes.

Strange to hear from a law professor