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26 Oct 2018, 3:21 pm by The Washington Post
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Solicitor General Noel Francisco have repeatedly gone outside the usual appellate process to get issues such ... [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 12:45 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Political violence, or the threat of violence, is antithetical to our vigorous system of self government," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 10:37 am by Autumn Callan
The city of Seattle, which was joined by the city of Portland, filed the lawsuit in March 2017, naming Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions as defendants. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 10:02 am by Manny Marotta
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday claiming that lawyer Michael Avenatti and accuser Julie Swetnick deliberately obstructed the committee’s investigation into the claims made against Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court earlier this month. [read post]
25 Oct 2018, 5:00 am by Stephen Bates
Justice Department regulations require a special counsel, at the end of the investigation, to prepare “a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions” and submit it to the attorney general—here, because of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal, Rosenstein. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 2:30 pm
A year ago, Attorney General Sessions declared that transgender people would no longer be protected from sex discrimination under Title VII, changing the rules for all federal programs. [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 2:53 pm
“During his 20 months in office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has swept in perhaps the most dramatic political shift in memory at the Justice Department, from the civil rights-centered agenda of the Obama era to one that favors his hard-line... [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 12:20 pm by Ashley Rundell
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday announced new measures set to fight transnational organized crime. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Eliot Kim
” A few months later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a department-wide Cyber-Digital Task Force charged with advising Sessions on how the Justice Department can most effectively confront cyber threats, including foreign influence operations. [read post]
13 Oct 2018, 7:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Soon thereafter, President Trump added his full-throated endorsement, declaring he would overrule Jeff Sessions on the topic if the Attorney General opposed the bill. [read post]
11 Oct 2018, 2:04 pm by Howard Bashman
“Trump Is Mulling Candidates Who Could Replace Jeff Sessions; Potential candidates for attorney general include Alex Azar, Steven Bradbury and Bill Barr”: Michael C. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 1:00 pm
And along with his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump is attempting to roll back recent reforms and promote the kind of race-based, unconstitutional police abuse that recently gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. [read post]
6 Oct 2018, 9:47 am by Ilya Somin
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]
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]
4 Oct 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
“The California legislature has enacted an extreme and illegal state law attempting to frustrate federal policy,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 8:30 am
This is the motivation, prior to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for Justice Department consent decrees seeking to end racially discriminatory police practices in Seattle; Los Angeles County; New Orleans; Baltimore; Newark; East Haven, Connecticut; and Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]