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16 Aug 2018, 2:05 pm
President Donald Trump is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a federal lawsuit against certain companies that supply and manufacture opioids. [read post]
16 Aug 2018, 1:33 pm
16 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm
” Carmen (a pseudonym) and her young daughter were returned to the United States that same day after the judge threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt if they were not. [read post]
16 Aug 2018, 7:00 am
Sessions, a case challenging Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new policies making it more difficult for victims of domestic violence and gang brutality to seek asylum in the U.S. [read post]
Assailing the new expanded mandatory minimum for "career offenders" being pushed by AG Jeff Sessions
15 Aug 2018, 8:56 pm
15 Aug 2018, 3:30 am
Prisons and jails look much more like zones of “dead capital,” in Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s phrase: prisoners languish rather than work, new facilities fail to produce promised community jobs, and private prisons remain a relatively small part of the carceral system (although attorney general Jeff Sessions has recently given them a thumbs-up to expand). [read post]
14 Aug 2018, 2:02 pm
More than 120 immigration law professors today sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions claiming that the Trump administration’s use of case quotas as a measure of immigration judges’ performance undermines their independence and threatens due process. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 12:45 pm
Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled federal government retrenchment on ending debtors’ prisons — the unlawful incarceration of poor people who cannot afford to pay court fines and fees — when he withdrew a critical 2016 guidance on the constitutional principles violated by this practice. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 7:18 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding that the Department of State remove 3D blueprints for firearms from numerous sites. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 7:04 am
If you don't trust the likes of Jeff Sessions or Scott Pruitt to interpret the law objectively, you should be happy to see a judiciary that defers to them as little as possible. [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 8:37 pm
” So said a federal trial judge in open court in Washington, Thursday, shortly before he threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of court. [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 12:25 pm
Earlier this week, the American Civil Liberties Union filed [JURIST report] a lawsuit against US Attorney General Jeff Sessions [official website] on behalf of the mother and daughter and other women and children who were denied asylum because of tighter restrictions on asylum eligibility imposed by the attorney general. [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 4:02 am
At NYR Daily, Cristian Farias looks at Solicitor General Noel Francisco’s Supreme Court record, noting that “[a]s the Justice Department has shifted priorities under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has embraced Trump’s hardline approach to immigration, religion, and criminal punishment, to name only a few areas of policy, the solicitor general has done his part to defend those priorities, working quietly behind the scenes to advance the administration’s… [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 3:45 pm
” Further, the judge suggested that if the situation was not fixed, he would hold contempt proceedings for those responsible—starting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:37 pm
In case you missed the in-depth coverage of Employment Law Daily for July, here’s a recap of some key developments in the L&E community. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:14 pm
But in June of this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned a Board of Immigration Appeals court cause that had granted asylum to a Salvadoran woman under this criterion. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:14 pm
But in June of this year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned a Board of Immigration Appeals court cause that had granted asylum to a Salvadoran woman under this criterion. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 8:24 am
From Huffington Post: In an uncharacteristically public move, the union representing immigration judges on Wednesday strongly criticized the Attorney General Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice for interfering with the courts’ independence. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 11:18 am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 10:49 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against US Attorney General Jeff Sessions [official website] Tuesday over a June memo that tightened restrictions for asylum seekers. [read post]
