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13 Nov 2018, 9:11 am by Matthew Kahn
District Court for the District of Maryland, the state of Maryland filed a motion to substitute the acting attorney general for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a defendant. [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 8:09 am by Howard Bashman
” In the Talk of the Town section, Amy Davidson Sorkin has a comment headlined “The Post-Midterms Dangers of Donald Trump: In firing the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, the President is bringing the country closer to a constitutional crisis; Many Republicans seem fine with it. [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 5:13 am by Bob Bauer
With the midterm elections over, the president has proceeded to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replaced him with a critic of the Mueller investigation. [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 3:40 am by Immigration Prof
The day after the 2016 midterm elections, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was out. [read post]
11 Nov 2018, 10:09 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
Coincidentally, one of the collateral consequences of President Trump’s brusque dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week removes from the USDOJ -at least temporarily- an outspoken opponent of pot legalization. [read post]
11 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
” As evidence, critics point to his frequent and intemperate attacks on former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Special Counsel Robert S. [read post]
11 Nov 2018, 7:48 am by Robert Litt
As was long anticipated, President Trump this week sacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and designated Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 2:43 pm by Douglas A. Berman
Easily lost amidst big election news and the resignation of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was this Justice Department press release, dated Wednesday, November 7, 2018, titled "Deputy Attorney General Names U.S. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 11:16 am by Tom Smith
In a stunning move on the heels of the midterm election, President Trump has forced the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appointed an outspoken critic of the Mueller investigation — Matthew Whitaker — as acting attorney general, shunting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to the sidelines. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 10:30 am by Jen Patja Howell
With the firing of Jeff Sessions and his replacement with former U.S. attorney Matthew Whitaker, all eyes this week are focused on whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians will get to run its full course. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 7:29 am by Anushka Limaye
On Wednesday afternoon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at the request of Donald Trump, and his chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, replaced him on an acting basis. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 3:15 pm
Under almost any other circumstances, the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be a moment for dancing in the streets. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:15 pm
  Despite bipartisan congressional efforts to rein in civil asset forfeiture, Jeff Sessions unleashed it, describing a “love” for it. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 1:15 pm by George Conway, Benjamin Wittes
The presiding judge, Karen LeCraft Henderson, began with an oblique instruction to counsel: that argument should proceed as though it happened Wednesday morning, not Thursday, and without reference to what she called the “events” of Wednesday afternoon—by which she meant the firing of Jeff Sessions. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 12:00 pm by FM Librarian
Convention Against Torture—No Substitute for Asylum, Putting Refugees at Risk: Fact Sheet (Human Rights First, Nov. 2018) [text]Legacy of (now former) Attorney General Jeff SessionsThe Immigration Crisis Jeff Sessions Leaves Behind (The Marshall Project, Nov. 2018) [text]Jeff Sessions’s Carefully Built Deportation Machine Will Outlast Him (Vox, Nov. 2018) [text]"Jeff Sessions Leaves the Trump Administration with a Tough… [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 10:33 am by Gene Quinn
Whitaker, the Acting Attorney General of the United States who ascended to the position with the resignation of Jeff Sessions, served on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 8:53 am by Gene Takagi
” Washington Post “President Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday and replaced him with a loyalist who will now take charge of the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference, a defiant move just a day after a midterm election loss. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 8:23 am by Scott R. Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump finally removed Jeff Sessions as attorney general, bringing an end to months of open and increasingly hostile criticism. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 7:00 am
From immigration to transgender rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions showed contempt for American civil rights and liberties. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 3:21 am by Immigration Prof
Ousted after less than two years as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions proved himself one of the most effective Cabinet members in advancing the Trump administration’s agenda, pushing through wide-reaching changes to the U.S. immigration system that will endure long after... [read post]