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25 Jul 2019, 5:41 am by Jessica Zhang, Andrew Patterson
In April 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors along the southwestern border to adopt a “zero-tolerance” policy for all offenses referred for prosecution under the illegal entry statute. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 6:05 am
”That may explain why New Yorker articles about Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy leave off the quotation marks:"What the Bible Really Says About Trump’s Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy" by James Carroll (June 2018): "Attorney General Jeff Sessions invokes the Bible to justify the heinous zero-tolerance immigration policy, which incarcerates children. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 3:42 pm by Anne Joseph O'Connell
And in November 2018, multiple litigants alleged that Matthew Whitaker was barred by both the Constitution and the Attorney General Succession Act from serving as acting attorney general after Jeff Sessions resigned because he was not Senate-confirmed. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 10:26 am by Hadley Baker, Mikhaila Fogel
He told advisors that it was the end of his presidency, sought to have Attorney General Jefferson (Jeff) Sessions unrecuse from the Russia investigation and to have the Special Counsel removed, and engaged in efforts to curtail the Special Counsel's investigation and prevent the disclosure of evidence to it, including through public and private contacts with potential witnesses. [read post]
21 Jul 2019, 1:55 pm by Stuart Kaplow
Barr’s pronouncement was a reversal of the January 4, 2018, determination by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinding the Cole Memorandum. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Soon after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s announcement of the new policy, followed by the revocation of dozens of existing guidance documents, then-Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand issued a January 2018 directive telling Department of Justice attorneys not to rely on allegations of noncompliance with agency guidance, in and of themselves, as reason to initiate civil enforcement actions. [read post]
5 Jul 2019, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
With Attorney General William Barr’s review of the counterintelligence investigation underway, the origins of the inquiry itself are now in the spotlight and with them, the role of Mifsud. [read post]
4 Jul 2019, 6:50 am by Mikhaila Fogel
For instance, on paper, it’s hard to buy that a president would lambast his attorney general for following basic legal ethics by saying, “This is terrible …. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 12:02 am by Immigration Prof
Lorelei Laird for the ABA Journal reports on the "less noticed" impacts of then-Attorney General Jeff Session's “zero tolerance” policy for immigrants who cross the... [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 1:31 am by Steve Lubet
" Or, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it, in the context of his family separation policy, "I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 12:07 pm by Vishnu Kannan
Perez, Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources, U.S. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 11:01 am by Forrest G. Read IV
DACA litigation has been in the news since September 2017, when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the DACA program would be terminated. [read post]
24 May 2019, 8:20 am by Garrett Hinck, Tim Maurer
John Carlin, who oversaw the early charging of foreign hackers as assistant attorney general for national security from 2014 to 2016, has written about charging foreign hackers more broadly as part of a package of tools that the U.S. government can use to disrupt and deter state-sponsored hacking. [read post]
23 May 2019, 5:38 am by Nassiri Law
However, that changed under Jeff Sessions, Trump’s former attorney general who overturned that guidance. [read post]
And moving from theory to practice, we have seen that Barr as attorney general has been willing to excuse a large amount of seemingly obstructive actions by President Trump. [read post]
10 May 2019, 12:40 pm by David Post
BARR: Serving as acting attorney general in the Mueller case. [read post]