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14 Sep 2020, 8:41 am by Nathaniel Sobel
Durham’s Investigation of Then FBI Director Comey in 2017 Schmidt reports in his book that around March 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions tapped Durham—then an assistant United States attorney in Connecticut—to open a leak investigation into FBI Director James Comey following reporting by the New York Times that Comey had asked the Justice Department to refute Trump’s baseless allegations that former President… [read post]
14 Jun 2023, 6:47 pm by Ilya Somin
It was curbed by Obama Administration Attorney General Eric Holder, but then reinstated by Trump's first AG, Jeff Sessions. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 1:12 pm by Justin Florence, Allison Murphy
According to the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was briefed on the contents of the memo the day after the strike—and the purpose of that briefing was to help the Attorney General understand how he would advise President Trump in “future military actions. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 3:00 pm
” Teramoto responded by setting up a meeting between Kobach and Ross for later that week: By August 8, Ross was growing impatient and indicated in an email to an aide that he was prepared to call Attorney General Jeff Sessions directly: The following day, the aide assured Ross that a memo on the citizenship question was coming his way: A month later, the pressure appeared to have paid off. [read post]
7 Mar 2018, 5:00 am
He decided to end it anyway, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions falsely stating that DACA was an “unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch” that the federal government couldn’t defend in the courts. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Treasury’s Mnuchin ‘Properly’ Followed Guidance in Refusing to Give Trump’s Tax Returns to Congress, Inspector General Finds MSN – Jeff Stein, Erica Werner, and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post) | Published: 4/10/2020 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin followed internal protocols when he refused to give President Trump’s tax returns to Congress, Richard Delmar, deputy inspector general of the Department of Treasury, found in a… [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions—a former U.S. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated that he was targeting rules that agencies had imposed “without proper notice and comment period. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 10:28 am by Bob Bauer
“ Trump did not believe that his White House counsel Don McGahn, much less his first attorney general Jeff Sessions, met the loyalty test. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Viktoria Seale is the agency’s general counsel. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:00 pm by Michael C. Dorf
" In addition, Trump repeatedly and very publicly criticized his first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, making crystal clear that he expected the Justice Department to act as his personal representative. [read post]
9 Mar 2021, 7:36 am by Bruce D. Brown, Gabe Rottman
And despite concerns that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would walk them back, these reforms remained in place during the Trump administration. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 7:17 am by Alyssa Peters
The original Times article created an uproar from many civil rights activists because it seemed to signal that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was implementing a plan to dial back civil rights protections. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 1:48 pm by Eric Dama
Indeed, Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote in a recent memorandum that, “Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women but does not encompass discrimination based on gender identity per se, including transgender status. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 8:49 am by Michael Markarian
—as well as the National Conference of State Legislatures, County Executives of America, Fraternal Order of Police, National Sheriffs’ Association, Mississippi and Arkansas Attorneys General, Iowa Farmers Union, Safe Food Coalition, professors from 13 law schools, and editorials in a number of papers such as USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Tulsa World, the Denver Post, and the Washington Post. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 12:40 pm by Michael Lowe
Attorney General Announces New DOJ Task Force to Fight Doctors As a direct result of this Commission report, the top federal prosecutor, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announced the creation of a new “Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit,” designed to fight “opioid health care fraud using data to identify and prosecute individuals that are contributing to this prescription opioid epidemic. [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]
12 Sep 2017, 12:16 pm by Garrett Hinck
Kahn flagged Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’ letter calling for Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act without a sunset provision. [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The state attorney general’s office asked the commission to reconsider the decision in July. [read post]