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4 Oct 2019, 8:23 am by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
This episode covers Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to recuse from the Russia investigation and President Trump’s reaction. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Attorney General William Barr’s help in that effort. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 9:30 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
It was clear early on that Trump had both welcomed Russian interference in the election and committed multiple acts—from firing FBI Director James Comey to pressuring Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take control of the Russia probe—meant to frustrate the investigation. [read post]
This includes Trump’s request to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to—as the Mueller report describes—“reverse his recusal so that Sessions could direct the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute Hillary Clinton. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 11:27 am by Margaret Taylor
On Sept. 17, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testified before the House Judiciary Committee in an impeachment investigation hearing titled “Presidential Obstruction of Justice and Abuse of Power. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 1:52 pm by Bob Bauer
He complied with a presidential order to test Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s determination to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, but he did not attempt to force the issue with Sessions. [read post]
16 Sep 2019, 2:19 pm by Mikhaila Fogel
The House Judiciary Committee is seeking testimony from former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reports the Washington Post. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 11:00 am by Melissa Crow
The current controversy dates back to September 2017, when then-Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke – upon legal advice from then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that DACA was “an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch” and that it had been implemented “without proper statutory authority” – rescinded the program with no prior notice. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The survey, the basis of a study published in the journal State and Local Government Review, finds most mayors contend with verbal hostility or physical intimidation at rates above those of the general workforce. [read post]
12 Sep 2019, 11:30 am by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Despite the tremendous success of DACA and its strong legal foundation, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a press conference on September 5, 2017, that DACA would end, calling DACA recipients “illegal aliens” and the policy an “unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch. [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 8:12 am by Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro
Attorney General Jeff Sessions concluded that this reading of federal law had “constitutional defects. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 12:10 pm by Leti Volpp
An evocative linkage to which Kahn refers is the 2003 Board of Immigration Appeals decision In re D-J-, which then-Attorney General John Ashcroft certified to himself—in order to declare a blanket detention of Haitians seeking asylum, without bond, for the entirety of their cases—in a suit brought by a teenager named David Joseph who had arrived on the coast of Florida by boat. [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Joyce’s attorneys sent a letter to the FEC in February that said Coleman embezzled from the campaign between 2015 through 2018. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 8:11 am by Matthew Kahn
The event will feature Jagannath Panda, research fellow and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, and Jeff M. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 7:18 am by Erica Newland
For example, he pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to open an investigation into Hillary Clinton and explored ordering the Justice Department to investigate the former FBI director, James Comey. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 1:16 pm by Vishnu Kannan
” The event will feature an address by Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Ambassador of India to the United States followed by a conversation between Ambassador Shringla and Jeff M. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Questions about Barrack complying with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) arose during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election before being referred to the U.S, attorney’s office in Brooklyn. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 9:09 am by David Priess
By contrast, John Ratcliffe was Chief of Anti-Terrorism and National Security for the Eastern District of Texas for three years, a US Attorney for one year, and Mayor of the town of Heath, Texas for eight years. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 12:41 am by Immigration Prof
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision which signifies a regression in the willingness to protect women fleeing from domestic violence... [read post]