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6 Feb 2019, 12:04 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, shut down the National Commission on Forensic Science in 2017, effectively also shutting down the idea for a national independent oversight committee. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 4:00 am
In addition, as articulated in United States v. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 4:57 am
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought their guidance and followed it, recusing himself from supervision of the Russia investigation, while current Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker sought their advice and ignored it. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 2:30 am
Judge Jed Rakoff of the United States District Court in Manhattan, a former member of the National Commission on Forensic Science, said the weakest pattern analysis fields rely more on examiner intuition than science. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 11:26 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy; namely, that illegal immigrants would be “met with the full prosecutorial powers of the Department of Justice. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 1:15 pm
And former Attorney General Jeff Sessions even forbade DOJ staff from meeting with Census Bureau experts who wanted to share an alternative proposal to give DOJ higher-quality citizenship data at lower cost for VRA enforcement. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 1:51 pm
United States, No. 18-496, a petition challenging the federal ban on possession of firearms by convicted felons, Goldstein moved to substitute Rod Rosenstein, rather than Matthew Whitaker, for departed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the nominal lead defendant.No dice. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 9:09 am
When Michaels filed his petition for review in June, the lead respondent in the case was Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general of the United States. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 9:51 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called SB50 “a stunning assertion of constitutional power by California” and the United States immediately sued the State of California in federal court on the basis that SB50 violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 2:00 pm
Recent Changes to DOJ’s “Justice Manual” Addressing De-Facto Regulations (December 27, 2018): On November 16, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum[1] (Sessions Memo) [2] to all components of the U.S. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 12:30 pm
For at least six months before then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the zero-tolerance policy of prosecuting every adult who crossed into the United States without permission, which would result in more than 2,000 children being taken from their parents, the Department of Homeland Security had quietly began taking hundreds of children away from their parents to deter would-be asylum seekers from coming to the United… [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm
This decision follows the action by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to overrule an immigration court decision granting asylum to a woman who fled domestic abuse in her home country, stating that asylum applicants had to show that their government “condoned” domestic or gang violence. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 4:04 pm
Because whether one agrees with his view of the law (as does McCarthy) or recoils at it (as does Lederman), one thing attorneys general of the United States should certainly not do is make up facts. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 10:00 am
In June, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions chose to intervene in an individual asylum case, Matter of A-B-, where he reversed the grant of asylum to a Salvadoran woman who fled horrific sexual and domestic violence at the hands of her then-husband. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 8:18 am
One of marijuana’s sharpest critics, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, resigned in November, which may open the door for less hardline officials to take the lead on federal marijuana policy. [read post]
15 Dec 2018, 7:41 am
Former US Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously had stated that the Justice Department under his leadership would not expend resources to defend the ACA. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 12:18 pm
Meng and Huawei do substantial business with the United States. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 7:07 am
And, of course, they have succeeded in getting those priorities set in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, where former Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued strong letters to federal departments and agencies directing them to follow RFRA to its logical extreme and to cater to religious entities as a first priority. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 3:15 pm
Donald Trump’s nomination of William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general ought to raise alarm bells across the country. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 11:41 am
One month to the day since Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the Justice Department, President Trump indicated to reporters that he will nominate former Attorney General William Barr to serve as Session’s replacement. [read post]
