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15 May 2017, 4:07 pm
15 May 2017, 3:31 pm
Some of the opposition to the charging policy restored by Jeff Sessions -- which requires career federal prosecutors ordinarily to charge the most serious readily provable offense -- has argued that these prosecutors will rebel at the loss of their "discretion," and will balk at following the policy in practice.Of course, that is an empirical question, so I asked someone who would know. [read post]
15 May 2017, 3:09 pm
15 May 2017, 2:25 pm
Then...came Jeff Sessions... the rants began to build within my gut, and before I knew it, I was planning on restarting the blog! [read post]
15 May 2017, 11:28 am
Then Came Jeff Sessions. [read post]
15 May 2017, 9:45 am
According to initial White House statements — by most accounts hastily assembled with little coordination — the president dismissed Comey on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. [read post]
15 May 2017, 8:32 am
” This comes from Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s official statement, on March 2, issued immediately after a story in The Washington Post revealed that Sessions had, notwithstanding his denials under oath during and after his confirmation hearings, indeed met — twice — with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 campaign. [read post]
15 May 2017, 8:18 am
15 May 2017, 5:20 am
Trump's Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announced a striking change of policy last Friday concerning how alleged criminals are to be charged with crimes going forward. [read post]
14 May 2017, 7:40 am
13 May 2017, 8:51 am
Susan and I examined whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ involvement in the firing violates his pledge to recuse himself from investigations relating to the presidential campaigns. [read post]
13 May 2017, 4:42 am
Jeff Sessions issued a memo to the United States Attorneys directing them to charge the highest provable offense possible. [read post]
12 May 2017, 3:00 pm
In the black-and-white delusion that Trump inhabits, he will continue to afford his attorney general Jeff Sessions wide discretionay latitude so long as Sessions continues pursuing the tough on crime mantle, which Sessions will always do. [read post]
12 May 2017, 1:30 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions knows that the United States is the world’s leading incarcerator. [read post]
12 May 2017, 10:59 am
Democrats, for example, delayed committee votes on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch earlier this year, while Republicans did the same for Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor during the Obama administration. [read post]
12 May 2017, 10:51 am
Last night, the President stated in an interview with NBC that he had already made up his mind to fire Comey before receiving the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on the matter--contradicting the White House’s initial statements that Trump was acting on Sessions’ and Rosenstein’s advice. [read post]
12 May 2017, 9:37 am
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions [official website] on Friday issued a new charging policy [materials] urging prosecutors to seek the largest sentences for each crime. [read post]
12 May 2017, 9:30 am
12 May 2017, 8:52 am
Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Elijah Cummings and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers have sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requesting a report on the role of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' role in the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, citing Sessions' commitment to recuse himself from investigations into "any existing or future investigations of any matters… [read post]
12 May 2017, 6:41 am
Attorney General Sessions has issued a charging directive to federal prosecutors. [read post]
