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5 Jan 2018, 2:11 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program during September of last year. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 1:48 pm by Jon Katz
Populist Donald Trump unlikely gets all worked up against marijuana, and in 2016 said state marijuana retailing should be up to the states, but his conservative attorney general Jeff Sessions certainly does get worked up against marijuana. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 11:29 am by Jordan Brunner
Jeff Merkley, are also defending Sessions. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 11:27 am by Neil Schoenherr
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week made it easier for federal marijuana laws to be enforced in states that had legalized its use, a move that may backfire, says a legal expert at Washington University in St. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 11:25 am by Tammy Binford
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ action rescinding an Obama administration policy on marijuana enforcement may signal a tougher stance against the substance, but it isn’t expected to have a major impact on employers. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 10:13 am by Douglas A. Berman
I have see a lot of sensible commentary from a variety of sensible folks about yesterday's big news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinding the Cole Memo (basics here and here). [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 7:51 am by Matthew D. Lee
McNelis III and William Bogot have published a client alert addressing yesterday’s announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that effectively ends the Obama Administration’s “hands off” approach to licensed cannabis operations in states where cannabis has been legalized for medicinal or recreational purposes. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 7:17 am by David Oxenford
Yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a one-page memo (here) advising Federal prosecutors to use their discretion in pursuing marijuana prosecutions – even in states where state law has made marijuana legal for either medical or recreational use. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 6:25 am by Jack Goldsmith
Recall that Rosenstein is the acting attorney general for this matter because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 6:09 am by Timothy P. Flynn
Attorney General Jeff Sessions' policy statement rescinds the 2013 Obama-era Cole memo; a memo that included a series of enforcement directives designed to leave policing marijuana dispensaries to the individual states.AG Sessions' personal animus against pot is well known. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 5:58 am by David Lat
* President Trump ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing in the Russia probe -- and Sessions, after not recusing and incurring Trump's wrath, later submitted his signed resignation letter (which the mercurial Trump, who had told Sessions to resign, then declined to accept). [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 3:57 am by SHG
Less than 24 hours ago, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum rescinding the Ogden and Cole memos as superfluous. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Obama-era Department of Justice guidance that provided some assurance to states with legalized marijuana that federal prosecutors would not prioritize enforcing criminal laws implicated by the marijuana industry. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:53 pm by Patent Docs
By Nicole Grimm, Brett Scott, and George "Trey" Lyons, III -- Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn in, the cannabis industry has been watching and waiting to see if he would indeed keep his word to crack down on state-legal cannabis businesses. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:52 pm
"Blame the Supreme Court for Letting the Feds Target Legal State Pot: The awful precedents that helped empower Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:26 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Michael Schmidt reports, among other news, that President Trump instructed White House Counsel Don McGahn to attempt to prevent Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s Russia investigation. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 6:40 pm by Ilya Somin
Jeff Sessions likes to pose as a great scourge of criminal drug gangs, such as MS-13. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 4:28 pm by Douglas A. Berman
Helpfully, Sam Kamin already has this effective Hill commentary astutely "Jeff Sessions's new pot policy: What happens now? [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 3:43 pm by Elie Mystal
IT'S ALSO A PRETTY DECENT DAY TO JUST SIT AROUND AND GET HIGH: But don't tell Jeff Sessions that. [read post]