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30 Jan 2019, 4:00 am by Margaret Taylor
With the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives sporting an aggressive oversight agenda on national security and foreign policy issues, it’s only a matter of time before a raft of congressional subpoenas are fired off from Capitol Hill. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 2:01 pm by Lovechilde
  She is fearless and has put her prosecutorial skills to great use on the Judiciary Committee, where she skewered Trump nominees, from Jeff Sessions to Brett Kavanaugh. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 11:57 am by Matthew Borges
Jeff Sessions, as attorney general, enacted new requirements for judges to hear 700 cases a year and to prevent them from administratively closing cases that could not be heard without more factual information. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 8:08 am by Florian Mueller
As Judge Koh said after the trial session: "Sadly, this opinion's gonna take some time. [read post]
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
Ryan Gabrielson ProPublica Originally published at ProPublica January 17 , 2019 At the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, a team of about a half-dozen technicians analyzes pictures down to their pixels, trying to determine if the faces, hands, clothes or cars of suspects match images collected by investigators from cameras at crime scenes. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 9:10 pm by Walter Olson
Alas, as I explain, national media bungled the story in November by characterizing Jeff Sessions’s memo as if it were primarily aimed at reducing oversight of police. [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, 6:04 pm by Shea Denning
The two documents were presented to the grand jury at its February 27, 2017 session by the officer who testified about the circumstances leading to Baker’s arrest. [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
  Where his predecessor Jeff Sessions fenced with Congress, declining to answer specific questions but hiding behind vaguely stated policy and practice rather than formal and well supported invocations of executive privilege, Barr should be asked to agree to as much of a partnership around the issues as the legislative and executive branch can ever achieve. [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, 2:01 pm by Matthew Scott Johnson
Op-Eds Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Was Trump right to fire AG Jeff Sessions? [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]
15 Jan 2019, 6:25 am by Florian Mueller
This is now a follow-up post with a focus on negotiation dynamics and deal structures, which was the #1 topic on Friday.Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams was first to testify on Monday morning. [read post]