Today, Jeff Sessions resigned as Attorney General of the United States, and President Trump announced that Sessions' Chief of Staff, Matthew Whitaker, will be the Acting Attorney General.  Under Attorney General Sessions, the Department of Justice has returned to respecting the rule of law and enforcing and supporting the law as written, instead of pursuing a partisan agenda as it did under President Obama.

The Department of Justice under Attorney General Sessions has worked to restore the rule of law in many ways, importantly by: 1. supporting election integrity (supporting state election integrity laws in litigation and prosecuting/investigating vote fraud), 2. supporting free speech on campus, 3. supporting religious liberty, and 4. supporting pro-liberty and pro-rule of law positions in litigation, particularly at the Supreme Court.  We have chronicled many of these efforts on this blog, including the following notable posts:

• DOJ Backs Lawsuit Against UMichigan for Infringing on Free Speech
• Sessions DOJ to Release Documents Related to Fast and Furious
• ICYMI - AAG Rachel Brand on DOJ Response to War on Free Speech on College Campuses
• Trump DOJ Righting Wrongs of Viewpoint Discrimination by Obama's IRS
• AG Sessions Restoring the Rule of Law at DOJ
• President Trump Had Considerable Success Restoring The Rule of Law In 2017
• ICYMI: DOJ Finally Enters Litigation Against Guam's Racially Discriminatory Voting Law
• DOJ Supports Ohio's Efforts to Clean Voter Rolls
• AG Sessions Testifies Before House Judiciary; Highlights Promotion of Rule of Law at DOJ
• AG Sessions Upholds Rule of Law by Enforcing Religious Liberty Laws

Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham, who both served for many years with him in the Senate, praised and thanked Attorney General Sessions:

Thx to AG Jeff Sessions for his service to our country both leading the DOJ & in the US Senate serving the ppl of Alabama I‘ve enjoyed working with him for decades. He is a true public servant + I appreciate his friendship

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) November 7, 2018

Jeff Sessions served our nation well and honorably as Attorney General.

He has dedicated his whole life to conservatism and upholding the Rule of Law. (1/3)

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 7, 2018

Thank you, Jeff Sessions, for your service to our country and for working tirelessly at the Department of Justice to restore the rule of law, often against intense criticism by the mainstream media and opposition from career bureaucrats inside DOJ.  Our entire country is indebted to you.