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22 Jan 2019, 4:57 am by Barbara McQuade, Chuck Rosenberg
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 by Tinker Ready
Image examiners’ lab work is, generally, only seeing if evidence from a suspect “matches” that from a crime scene. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 11:26 am by John Floyd
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]
18 Jan 2019, 10:00 am
The new report comes after statements by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that, under his watch, DOJ was pursuing three times as many leak investigations as it did under the Obama administration — which itself set records for leak prosecutions. [read post]
17 Jan 2019, 4:12 pm by Ilya Somin
We covered all of the major sanctuary cases of the last two years, including challenges to President Trump's January 2017 executive order seeking to deny federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions, cases involving then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions' efforts to force jurisdictions that receive federal law enforcement grants to assist in deportation efforts, and the legal battle over California's sanctuary state laws. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 2:15 pm
Trump’s pick for attorney general signaled that his Justice Department will match the poor civil rights record of Jeff Sessions. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 11:09 am by Bob Bauer
The Senate currently faces this dilemma in the case of William Barr, President Trump’s nominee to serve as attorney general. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 8:41 pm by Peter Reca
On September 5, 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that DACA would be terminated. [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]
15 Jan 2019, 8:06 am by Nicholas Chan
The justices also denied the plaintiff’s motion to substitute Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, with Matthew Whitaker, who was appointed after Jeff Sessions resigned back in November 2018. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 1:51 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Like Attorney General Sessions, I believe we must keep up the pressure on chronic, violent criminals. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 9:09 am by Amy Howe
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]
11 Jan 2019, 8:16 am by Bruce Zagaris and Zarine Kharazian
  Madeline Henshaw-Green covered many migration enforcement developments, such as the Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ elimination of the requirement of full hearings for asylum seekers, and the rise of xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies in American and European governments. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 8:16 am by Bruce Zagaris and Zarine Kharazian
  Madeline Henshaw-Green covered many migration enforcement developments, such as the Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ elimination of the requirement of full hearings for asylum seekers, and the rise of xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies in American and European governments. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 9:51 pm by Glen C. Hansen
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]
9 Jan 2019, 2:31 pm by Jeff Leach
In addition, Jeff practices at the law firm of Gray Reed & McGraw in Dallas where he serves as outside general counsel for general contractors and various other construction clients, handling everything from litigation and transactions to employment issues, regulatory compliance and taxation. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 3:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Before his resignation, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the inquiry with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein serving as Acting Attorney General for the investigation. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 12:13 pm by Ilya Somin
In 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reinstituted asset forfeiture policies under which the federal government colludes with state and local law enforcement to seize large amounts of property with little or nor due process, and often from people who have never been convicted of any crime or even charged with one. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 10:00 am by John Floyd
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a man with a long history of racism himself and one of the earliest supporters of Trump-for-president, was the architect of Trump’s demand that there be increased immigration related prosecutions before he was fired by the president for disloyalty. [read post]