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12 Jan 2018, 9:32 am
" Here is most of what it says: Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum rescinding existing... [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 7:31 am
Here is the abstract:resident Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Alabama Senator Jeff Session as his Attorney General resulted in a vacancy in the Senate and triggered a special election. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
Jeff Colyer was widely expected to succeed Brownback and kick off the 2018 legislative session. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 9:48 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has established the “Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team” focused on investigating those who provide material support to the Islamic group in Lebanon, Reuters reports. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 2:06 pm
Here is his post, verbatim:On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he was rescinding all of the Obama administration's enforcement guidance that had foresworn enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act against marijuana that was legal under state law.There has been plenty of criticism of Sessions's new position, including from my co-bloggers Ilya and Jonathan here. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 12:15 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to approve more death penalty cases under the Trump administration in what Sessions has described as a “value tool” in deterring and punishing “heinous crimes. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 4:30 am
Attorney.Here’s the press release from December 28:Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Benjamin G. [read post]
6 Jan 2018, 6:15 am
Wittes also posted a special edition of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt—along with Susan Hennessey, Jack Goldsmith, and Bob Bauer for a discussion of Schmidt’s article on White House Counsel Donald McGahn’s attempt to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 5:43 pm
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In a Memorandum on January 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded previous Department of Justice instructions to United States Attorneys relating to enforcement of federal laws criminalizing... [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 2:11 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program during September of last year. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 1:48 pm
Fairfax marijuana lawyer decries the Attorney General Sessions’ interference with marijuana federalism Is it a mere coincidence that United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions chose only a few days after the California legalized recreational pot retailing fanfare, to announce a Justice Department obliteration of the Obama administration’s general hands-off policy about interfering with marijuana… [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 11:29 am
President Donald Trump instructed the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Justice Department’s Russian investigation in March of last year, the New York Times informs us. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 11:27 am
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week made it easier for federal marijuana laws to be enforced in states that had legalized its use, a move that may backfire, says a legal expert at Washington University in St. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 6:25 am
Recall that Rosenstein is the acting attorney general for this matter because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 6:09 am
Canada and California went legal last week; 8 states have legalized recreational use of marijuana; another 20 states have legalized medical marijuana.Yesterday, however, the other shoe fell in Washington D.C., with the United States Attorney General reversing USDOJ policy and instructing United States Attorneys to begin prosecuting marijuana violations of the Controlled Substance Act. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 3:57 am
Less than 24 hours ago, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum rescinding the Ogden and Cole memos as superfluous. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:53 pm
By Nicole Grimm, Brett Scott, and George "Trey" Lyons, III -- Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn in, the cannabis industry has been watching and waiting to see if he would indeed keep his word to crack down on state-legal cannabis businesses. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 11:16 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a statement that he is appointing 17 interim U.S. attorneys to run offices across the country, including for the Southern District of New York, according to the Washington Post. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 10:58 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ one-page memo instructs United States Attorneys to ignore guidance from 2013 that department resources should be limited in the criminal prosecution of marijuana users and state-approved growers in states where marijuana is legal. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:37 am
How does Attorney General Sessions figure into this? [read post]
