This been looked into yet?

Trump lines up potential candidates to replace Sessions as attorney general

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering as many as five candidates as his new attorney general on the assumption that Jeff Sessions will leave his post later this year, according to White House officials and outside advisers.

The potential candidates include Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Transportation Department general counsel Steven Bradbury, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan and Janice Rogers Brown, a retired appeals court judge from the District of Columbia Circuit, the people said.

The president has spoken openly, and often sharply, about his desire to replace Sessions and his regret over installing the former Alabama senator as the nation’s top lawyer. While Trump has spent more than a year undercutting his attorney general, he has rarely spoken about replacements, according to White House officials and people familiar with his thinking.

His discussion of these candidates represents a shift, signaling for the first time that Trump is envisioning what his administration might look like without Sessions in the cabinet. Some White House officials and Trump allies urged caution about the president’s deliberations. For one thing, Sessions remains in his job and there are no finalized plans to remove him from the position, even after the November congressional elections. Expectations inside the West Wing and at the Justice Department are that Sessions will step down, officials said.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-lines-up-potential-candidates-to-replace-sessions-as-attorney-general-2018-10-11?link=TD_nypost_articles.7c7e0f416376f79f&utm_source=nypost_articles.7c7e0f416376f79f&utm_campaign=circular&utm_medium=MARKETWATCH