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2 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Dean Falvy
Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 12:25 pm by Eric Halliday
The investigation against Tajideen was led by the Justice Department’s Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, which then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in January 2018 as the centerpiece of the department’s effort to target the group’s criminal activities. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 2:20 pm by Mark Graber
(This section discusses Trump’s effort to get Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation, Trump’s effort to get Sessions to “unrecuse” himself, and Trump’s efforts to have intelligence agencies declare had had no connection to Russian efforts to influence to 2019 election.)The President's termination of Comey. , , , The day of the firing, the White House maintained that… [read post]
To establish a criminal conspiracy, a prosecutor must show, among other elements, that two or more persons agreed to either violate a federal criminal law or defraud the United States. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:41 pm by Lev Sugarman
To organize those rallies, IRA employees posed as U.S. grassroots entities and persons and made contact with Trump supporters and Trump Campaign officials in the United States. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 10:59 am by Ilya Somin
That said, Friday’s decision may be the result of the influence of the Attorney General William Barr, who appears to be more supportive of federalism than his predecessor, Jeff Sessions. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 8:42 pm by Benjamin Wittes
I had also thought that’s why former Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked a U.S. attorney to look things over. [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 5:00 am by Charles Kurzman
The request is intended to generate comprehensive data on terrorism and counterterrorism in the United States, as I noted in a Lawfare piece last year. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 9:06 pm by News Desk
Hacala, a 24-year-old Arkansas man, died after drinking tea made from contaminated poppy seeds purchased on Amazon.com in 2016, prompting Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R) to contact the FDA and prompting Senator Cotton to ask then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon to stop the products’ sale. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 9:13 am by Bill Marler
Hacala, a 24-year-old Arkansas man, died after drinking tea made from contaminated poppy seeds purchased on Amazon.com in 2016, prompting Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R) to contact the FDA and prompting Senator Cotton to ask then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon to stop the products’ sale. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 12:51 pm by Scott Bomboy
In June 2018, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the Justice Department opposed two provisions in the Affordable Care Act about mandatory insurance coverage of persons with pre-existing medical conditions, along with the individual mandate. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 11:29 am by Peter Margulies
The paper describes threshold rescissions, which limit participation based on race, gender, or sexual orientation, restrict the ability to work legally and remain in the United States or adversely affect representation in the political system. [read post]
10 Mar 2019, 8:08 am by Dave Maass
Around the world, nerds of all ages are using laws like the United States’ Freedom of Information Act (and state-level equivalent laws) to pry free secrets and expose the inner workings of our democracy. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 5:26 am by Erik Slobe
However, the DOJ changed position after Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross spoke with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 12:30 pm
Bizarrely, Nielsen continued to insist at the hearing that “there is no policy of family separation,” contradicting her department’s own documents, former DHS Secretary and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, President Trump, and plain reality. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 1:50 pm by Ilya Somin
In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought to cut Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funds to state and local governments that fail to meet three conditions: 1. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 2:42 pm by Malkia Cyril
I came to learn about the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program, or COINTELPRO, the covert government program started in 1956 to monitor and disrupt the activities of the Communist Party in the United States. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 2:14 pm by Quinta Jurecic
The court likewise makes quick work of Miller’s contention that then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal from the Mueller investigation was not sufficient to vest Rosenstein with the power as acting attorney general to appoint a special counsel. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 3:07 pm by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
” (Notably, while McCabe told Pelley that he couldn’t recall whether Rosenstein “assign[ed] specific votes to specific people,” the Times describes Rosenstein as telling McCabe that “he might be able to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and [then-Secretary of Homeland Security] John F. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 9:30 pm by Domenic Powell
The United States will likely soon have a new Attorney General. [read post]