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21 Aug 2017, 10:59 am by Mary B. McCord
Two days later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions correctly labeled the car attack in Charlottesville that left Heather Heyer dead and many others wounded an act of “domestic terrorism. [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 1:53 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
On Friday July 14, 2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the Supreme Court for clarification regarding their interpretation of  “close familial relationship” and requested an immediate stay to halt Watson’s July 13th ruling modifying the parameters of the travel ban. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 8:15 am
In April, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his “zero tolerance policy,” calling for every adult who crosses the border anywhere other than a port of entry to be prosecuted, the administration said it was forced to separate children from their families. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 5:58 am by Benjamin Wittes
Now, again, Bob, Bob Mueller, reports to the deputy attorney general, and the deputy attorney general has to--and Jeff Sessions is absent due to his recusal--has to interpret those regulations, so there may be an interpretive gloss, in light of the facts, that, in an exercise of discretion, the report should in fact be more fulsome, more complete, more thorough, as opposed to what one might contemplate is an executive summary that doesn’t… [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 9:54 am by Susan Schneider
There were approximately 330 attorneys in attendance, at least 30 were affiliated with our Program, and many were asked to present. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 3:28 am by Jack Goldsmith
The next week, the Post reports that a “bevy of congressional Republicans are warning President Trump not to move against Attorney General Jeff Sessions in what many fear could be a prelude to the dismissal of special counsel Robert S. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 1:15 pm
Unfortunately, the current Department of Justice and Civil Rights Division, under the direction of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has demonstrated a deep hostility towards police accountability and reform. [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 1:51 pm by Benjamin Wittes
It was he who asked Comey to drop the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and who has publicly expressed his anger at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation—as Sessions was certainly bound to do. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 2:35 pm by William Ford, Quinta Jurecic
The office of Attorney General Jeff Sessions allegedly assembled the report’s statistics. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 10:12 am by William Ford
The recommendation forces Attorney General Jeff Sessions to decide whether to fire the former deputy director a mere three days before the bureau expects him to retire. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 12:25 pm by Eric Halliday
The investigation against Tajideen was led by the Justice Department’s Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, which then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in January 2018 as the centerpiece of the department’s effort to target the group’s criminal activities. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 1:30 pm by CJLF Staff
  Senator Jeff Sessions spoke on the bill Thursday, warning that we must be careful and cautious when considering legislation to cut prison sentences for drug traffickers and violent criminals. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 12:43 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has warned sanctuary cities that they must agree to grant federal law enforcement access to local jails and provide 48 hours’ notice before releasing immigrants of interest to federal authorities wanted for immigration violations. [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]
20 Dec 2018, 4:04 pm by Mikhaila Fogel, Benjamin Wittes
Because whether one agrees with his view of the law (as does McCarthy) or recoils at it (as does Lederman), one thing attorneys general of the United States should certainly not do is make up facts. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:41 pm by Lev Sugarman
To organize those rallies, IRA employees posed as U.S. grassroots entities and persons and made contact with Trump supporters and Trump Campaign officials in the United States. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 9:47 am by Preston Lim, Rachel Brown
In the week before his departure as attorney general, Jeff Sessions announced a “China Initiative” to support the Department of Justice’s “strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats. [read post]
14 Jul 2017, 12:39 pm by Michael H. Neifach
Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated that “[t]he Supreme Court has had to correct this lower court once, and we will now reluctantly return directly to the Supreme Court to again vindicate the rule of law and the executive branch’s duty to protect the nation. [read post]