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30 Dec 2018, 12:03 pm
Attorneys, operating under former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of imposing maximum penalties (including all mandatory minimums) in drug cases, opposed Sanders’ argument that the state court reclassification of her 1996 drug conviction from a felony to a misdemeanor precluded the imposition of § 841(b)(1)(B)’s mandatory 10-year minimum. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 2:00 pm
Recent Changes to DOJ’s “Justice Manual” Addressing De-Facto Regulations (December 27, 2018): On November 16, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum[1] (Sessions Memo) [2] to all components of the U.S. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 12:30 pm
For at least six months before then Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the zero-tolerance policy of prosecuting every adult who crossed into the United States without permission, which would result in more than 2,000 children being taken from their parents, the Department of Homeland Security had quietly began taking hundreds of children away from their parents to deter would-be asylum seekers from coming to the United States. [read post]
22 Dec 2018, 8:41 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised to push back on federal marijuana enforcement, but wasn’t able to make good on that promise before he was pushed out. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm
Separately, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 4:04 pm
As the Wall Street Journal first reported, Barr, whom the president has nominated to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general, sent the unsolicited memo—dated June 8, 2018—to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to offer his view of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible obstruction of justice by the president. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 10:00 am
In June, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions chose to intervene in an individual asylum case, Matter of A-B-, where he reversed the grant of asylum to a Salvadoran woman who fled horrific sexual and domestic violence at the hands of her then-husband. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 8:18 am
One of marijuana’s sharpest critics, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, resigned in November, which may open the door for less hardline officials to take the lead on federal marijuana policy. [read post]
15 Dec 2018, 7:41 am
Former US Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously had stated that the Justice Department under his leadership would not expend resources to defend the ACA. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 12:18 pm
The detention of a top executive from Chinese technology giant Huawei shocked financial markets around the world last week as investors worried that the arrest would derail U.S. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 7:07 am
And, of course, they have succeeded in getting those priorities set in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, where former Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued strong letters to federal departments and agencies directing them to follow RFRA to its logical extreme and to cater to religious entities as a first priority. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 3:15 pm
Donald Trump’s nomination of William Barr to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general ought to raise alarm bells across the country. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 11:41 am
One month to the day since Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the Justice Department, President Trump indicated to reporters that he will nominate former Attorney General William Barr to serve as Session’s replacement. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 11:30 am
But former Attorney General Jeff Sessions felt that at least one such regulation limited his relationship with the Mueller investigation, leading to his fateful decision to recuse himself. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 8:06 am
Launched in November by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the China Initiative is a broad-based strategy designed to counter Chinese economic espionage and a range of other national security threats. [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 9:29 am
This was a major concern when President Trump’s former Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed Department of Justice policy to make marijuana prosecutions priority (so much for state’s rights). [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 3:30 am
Just recently, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed skepticism over the legitimacy of national injunctions, joining Justice Clarence Thomas’s assessment of them, in Trump v. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 9:41 am
Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought to cut Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funds to state and local governments that fail to meet three conditions: 1. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 12:28 pm
Trump’s support for the First Step Act may herald a retreat from the zero tolerance sentencing approach of former attorney general Jeff Sessions who backed maximum sentences for drug offenders. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 12:28 pm
Trump’s support for the First Step Act may herald a retreat from the zero tolerance sentencing approach of former attorney general Jeff Sessions who backed maximum sentences for drug offenders. [read post]
