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14 Jan 2019, 1:51 pm
United States, No. 18-496, a petition challenging the federal ban on possession of firearms by convicted felons, Goldstein moved to substitute Rod Rosenstein, rather than Matthew Whitaker, for departed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the nominal lead defendant.No dice. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 9:09 am
When Michaels filed his petition for review in June, the lead respondent in the case was Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general of the United States. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 8:16 am
Madeline Henshaw-Green covered many migration enforcement developments, such as the Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ elimination of the requirement of full hearings for asylum seekers, and the rise of xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies in American and European governments. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 8:16 am
Madeline Henshaw-Green covered many migration enforcement developments, such as the Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ elimination of the requirement of full hearings for asylum seekers, and the rise of xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies in American and European governments. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 2:00 am
Acting in the stead of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions who had recused himself from the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election, Rosenstein appointed Rober Mueller as special counsel and oversaw the investigation. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 9:51 pm
Attorney General Jeff Sessions called SB50 “a stunning assertion of constitutional power by California” and the United States immediately sued the State of California in federal court on the basis that SB50 violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 2:31 pm
Additionally, Jeff was elected by his colleagues to serve on the Texas House Republican Caucus Policy Committee. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 3:17 pm
Before his resignation, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the inquiry with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein serving as Acting Attorney General for the investigation. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 12:13 pm
In 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reinstituted asset forfeiture policies under which the federal government colludes with state and local law enforcement to seize large amounts of property with little or nor due process, and often from people who have never been convicted of any crime or even charged with one. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 10:00 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a man with a long history of racism himself and one of the earliest supporters of Trump-for-president, was the architect of Trump’s demand that there be increased immigration related prosecutions before he was fired by the president for disloyalty. [read post]
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]
29 Dec 2018, 6:00 am
Following the Reuters report, Merkley and Bonamici plan to make a renewed push for this legislation in January in the next session of Congress. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 3:35 pm
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]
21 Dec 2018, 1:07 pm
Fortunately, nothing much happened, and it was Jeff Sessions who was really fueling the anti-marijuana stuff on the federal level. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm
This decision follows the action by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to overrule an immigration court decision granting asylum to a woman who fled domestic abuse in her home country, stating that asylum applicants had to show that their government “condoned” domestic or gang violence. [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]
