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6 Oct 2017, 9:26 am by Tammy Binford
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement changing his department’s position on transgender employment discrimination marks a change in the legal landscape, but it doesn’t alter employer obligations under various state and local laws or the position taken by other federal agencies. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 6:32 am by Jim Sedor
The lobbyist, Paul Mouton has admitted to the commission that he worked for Humphreys and discussed proposed legislation with state lawmakers and their staff during the 2016 and 2017 legislative sessions. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 5:06 am by SHG
” They’ve grown up at a time when the people proclaiming the phrase the loudest are reactionaries like Yiannopoulos or Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who lectured about campus free speech at Georgetown’s law school last month. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 3:08 am by Robin Shea
Right now, this is not an issue with the ADA because marijuana is still an illegal drug under federal law, and I would not expect that to change under Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 3:05 am by Robin Shea
In a memorandum issued this week by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ formally withdrew a 2014 memorandum by then-Attorney General Eric Holder taking the contrary position. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 4:02 pm by Kathryn Rubino
Ready For This Fight: Jeff Sessions is investigating affirmative action at Harvard. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 3:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Says – Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the protection against discrimination based on sex does not cover gender identity, reversing an Obama-era directive. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 11:12 am by Rachel Gerber
[JURIST] US Attorney General Jeff Sessions [official profile] sent a memo [text, PDF] to US Attorneys Wednesday stating that Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination does not extend to discrimination based on gender identity.Accordingly, 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]
5 Oct 2017, 7:23 am by Marty Lederman
By Adam Cox, Marty Lederman and Cristina RodriguezOne month ago, on September 5, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Elaine Duke, rescindeda June 2012 memorandum issued by her predecessor, Secretary Janet Napolitano, which had established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as “DACA. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 3:30 pm by Kathryn Rubino
Preet Bharara Is The Man: He handles  criticism like a champ -- and waaay better than Attorney General Jeff Sessions ever could. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 5:29 am by Joe Patrice
Preet Bharara confronts protesters at law school event and does... basically the opposite of what Jeff Sessions did. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 5:34 pm by James S. Friedman, LLC
  The programs are now being undermined by instructions that the current Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, issued to all federal prosecutors to charge “the most serious, readily provable offense[s] … that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 12:00 pm by Tom Smith
She joined former FBI director James Comey and current attorney general Jeff Sessions as the third cabinet-level official in the span of a week whose visit to a college campus was met with protests, caterwauling, and the now-rote charges of “white supremacism. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 8:46 am
Said Peter McDonough, vice president and general counsel of the American Council on Education, quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about the Justice Department, under Jeff Sessions, intervening in campus free-speech cases. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 3:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Jeff, Shea, and Phil will be on hand to discuss Supreme Court happenings as well as new developments in evidence and criminal procedure. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 11:30 am
As President Trump spends his time denigrating black NFL players and their allies who are protesting police brutality, racial inequity, and a broken criminal justice system, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is working hard to make these problems even worse. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 11:30 am
As President Trump spends his time denigrating black NFL players and their allies who are protesting police brutality, racial inequity, and a broken criminal justice system, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is working hard to make these problems even worse. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 8:21 am by John L. Culhane, Jr.
  As a result, although it concludes by noting the role of the DOJ’s “vigorous enforcement of fair lending laws” in expanding credit access, it is unclear how the DOJ will carry out that role under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 9:45 am
  But under Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department has reversed itself, and is now defending Ohio’s “right” to purge eligible voters from the rolls for no good reason. [read post]