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1 Feb 2017, 12:49 pm by Gwenyth Gamble
The Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] advanced the nomination of Jeff Sessions [materials] for US attorney general on Wednesday. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 12:38 pm
In the past 50 years, the most contentious confirmations for secretary of state were those of Condoleezza Rice in 2005, who passed by a vote of 85 to 13, and Henry Kissinger in 1973, who was confirmed 78 to 7.I wonder how many people take this "contentiousness" seriously as anything about Tillerson as opposed to Democratic Senators dedicated to obstructing Trump.There's also the news that Jeff Sessions has been approved by the Judiciary Committee:The action came on a… [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:13 am by Jeralyn
Jeff Sessions will be a terrible Attorney General. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 5:43 am by Mark Walsh
Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the nominee for attorney general whose committee vote was delayed today by Democrats, does not appear to be here. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 5:03 am by Heather Douglas
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 6:15 pm by Amy Howe
Pryor reportedly had the support of Senator Jeff Sessions, Trump’s nominee to serve as the U.S. attorney general, but a possible Pryor nomination could have drawn the ire of both the left and the right: Although Pryor has referred to the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 3:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general pick, once told Yates that she should be able to say no to the president if he asks for something she thinks is “unlawful. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 10:54 am by Jordan Brunner
” Yates, an Obama administration holdover serving as Acting Attorney General while Trump’s Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions awaits confirmation, was dismissed with a strikingly personal letter from the White House declaring that Yates had “betrayed” the Department of Justice.Trump replaced Yates with Dana J. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 7:49 am by Lovechilde
  Or, one can't separate Jeff Sessions from Steve Bannon from the unconstitutional Muslim ban that does not include countries in which Trump has business interests and that will undermine, not enhance, national security. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 7:49 pm
 Senate Jeff Sessions is scheduled for a confirmation on Tuesday. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 7:27 pm by Michael Froomkin
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 7:15 pm by Elie Mystal
The Jeff Sessions confirmation is now a Senate vote on the Muslim Ban. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 6:54 pm
Boente, United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting attorney general until Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is confirmed....The extraordinary legal standoff capped a tumultuous day in which... [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 6:32 pm by Jack Goldsmith
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates—who was Barack Obama’s Deputy Attorney General and has been running DOJ until Jeff Sessions is confirmed—today sent a letter to top Justice Department officials announcing that she will “will not present arguments in defense of” President Trump’s controversial Immigration Executive Order “unless and until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 3:06 pm by Molly Runkle
Jeff Sessions, then Alabama attorney general, and the two have a close relationship. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 12:22 pm by Bill Otis
Jeff Sessions, the nominee for Attorney General, will have another hearing. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 8:42 am by CJLF Staff
Numerous police officials want to discuss these decrees with Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick for attorney general, in hopes of renegotiating the terms of the decrees to hopefully make them more effective and economically sound. [read post]