JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday [11-14-17] pressed Attorney General Jeff Sessions on his and his department’s handling of race, including the lack of minorities in key Justice Department positions Under questioning from CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond at the House judiciary committee hearing, Sessions acknowledged he lacks a single black […]
Category: Jeff Sessions
11/14/2017
ETHICS/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/POLITICAL FIGURES/WOMEN: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday [11-14-17] that he had ‘no reason to doubt’ the women who have made sexual misconduct allegations against Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore, joining a wave of high-profile Republicans who have expressed confidence in his accusers. But Sessions did not say whether Moore should be seated […]
11/14/2017
CONFLICT OF INTEREST/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, during questioning at a congressional hearing Tuesday [11-14-17], sidestepped questions about whether President Trump’s vitriol toward CNN was factoring into the Department of Justice’s review of a mammoth media merger. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Inc. — which owns CNN, HBO, […]
11/14/2017
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced a fresh round of lawmaker questions on Tuesday [11-14-17] about the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, as well as about Republican lawmakers’ earlier inquiries about Hillary Clinton. The morning oversight hearing of the Justice Department by the House Judiciary Committee touched on several topics including questions […]
11/7/2017
2016 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify before the House Judiciary Committee about issues facing the Justice Department on Nov. 14, the committee confirmed on Tuesday [11-6-17]. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT), it said in a statement. Reuters reported on Monday that the committee would hold […]
11/2/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/FOREIGN POLICY/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill regarding his candor about Russia and the Trump campaign amid revelations that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year. According to court filings unsealed this week, […]
10/24/2017
CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions Monday designated MS-13, the violent street gang, a target for a Justice Department task force that has traditionally attacked drug kingpins and cartels. The designation will allow the Justice Department to more aggressively target the gang for violating racketeering, gun and tax laws, Mr. Sessions said in a […]
10/18/2017
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his role in the firing of James Comey as FBI director, making some of his fullest remarks on the issue to date on Wednesday [10-18-17] in a Senate hearing dominated by questions related to Russia but also touching on immigration, civil rights and other issues. Speaking before […]
10/18/2017
CRIME/DRUGS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN: “Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday [10-18-17] slammed the Trump administration’s approach to crime and called on Congress to impose change. Holder, speaking at a Washington event for law enforcement supportive of criminal justice reforms — such as increasing mental health and drug treatment, federal support for community […]
10/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday [10-18-17] morning, where he will likely face questions on contentious issues such as immigration, civil rights and his recusal from the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Democrats said they plan to push Mr. Sessions […]
10/12/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/LGBTQ: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday [10-12-17] that the administration wants to overhaul a variety of laws and regulations to make the process of applying for asylum in the U.S. more difficult, and to crack down on what he described as rampant fraud within that realm of the immigration system. Among the necessary […]
10/12/2017
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday [10-12-17] the policies that allow immigrants to seek asylum in the United States were broken and subject to ‘rampant abuse and fraud.’… Overhauling the U.S. asylum system was on a list of immigration proposals the White House sent Congress over the weekend that President Donald […]
10/6/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/LGBTQ/RELIGION: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued government-wide legal guidance Friday [10-6-17] that urges sweeping protection for religious freedom and could impact a series of pending policy decisions involving health care, LGBT rights and even disaster relief. Sessions billed the 25-page memo directed to all federal agencies as a response to an executive order President […]
10/5/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LGBTQ: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed an Obama-era reading of the Civil Rights Act in a memo this week, saying the Justice Department no longer considers workplace discrimination against transgender individuals to be covered by federal law. In a document dated Oct. 4, Mr. Sessions directed Justice Department lawyers to take the position […]
10/5/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LGBTQ: “The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not. The memo sent to U.S. Attorneys’ offices on Wednesday [10-4-17] by Attorney General Jeff Sessions says Title VII of the Civil […]
9/15/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/SANCTUARY CITIES: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions cannot follow through, for now, with his threat to withhold public safety grant money to Chicago and other so-called sanctuary cities that have refused to impose tough new immigration policies, a federal judge ruled Friday [9-15-17]. In what is at least a temporary victory for cities nationwide that […]
9/14/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting and said the attorney general should resign, according to current and former administration officials and others briefed […]
9/5/2017
FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday [9-5-17] it will consider this week a resolution asking President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to provide documents related to Trump’s firing of James Comey as FBI director. The House Judiciary Committee said it would consider the resolution […]
8/14/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday [8-14-17] morning he expects President Donald Trump to explicitly condemn white supremacists, in the wake of deadly violence at a weekend rally in Virginia and growing pressure on Mr. Trump to break decisively with nationalist groups that backed his campaign and presidency. ‘He will […]
8/10/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/NOMINATIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urging the White House to nominate a federal judge and tough-on-crime ex-prosecutor once nicknamed ‘Hang ’Um High’ Henry Hudson to an independent, bipartisan panel that issues sentencing guidelines. Mr. Sessions’ recommendation for one of three openings on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, confirmed by people familiar with the […]
8/6/2017
GOP/GUNS/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a recent gathering here hosted by the BamaCarry gun-rights group, Republican candidates vying to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former U.S. Senate seat all invoked the same person: President Donald Trump… In the run-up to the Aug. 15 special-election primary, the GOP candidates are sparring over who would best advance […]
8/4/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSION/LEAKS/MEDIA: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a harsh rebuke of leaks and the media that report them on Friday [8-4-17]— echoing criticism levied regularly by President Trump over the past year — and signaled that the Justice Department could be changing how it deals with reporters in such cases. Sessions announced at a […]
8/4/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday [8-4-17] that the Justice Department was now pursuing three times as many leak investigations as the previous administration, a significant devotion of law enforcement resources to hunt down the sources of unauthorized disclosures of information that have plagued the Trump administration. Mr. Sessions […]
8/3/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES: “Attty. Gen. Jeff Sessions moved Thursday [8-3-17] to again punish so-called sanctuary cities, threatening to deny federal crime-fighting resources to four cities beset by violence if they don’t step up efforts to help detain and deport people living in the country illegally, including two agencies in California, a state that has […]
8/2/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions last weekend that his job was safe after Sessions endured several weeks of sharp public criticism from President Donald Trump, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday [8-2-17]. Kelly, who was named chief of staff by Trump […]
7/27/2017
JEFF SESSIONS/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans on Thursday moved to block every path President Donald Trump might try to use to fire and replace Attorney General Jeff Session s, a step they worry would disrupt the independence of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Sending the most powerful signal yet that Mr. […]
7/26/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump publicly attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a third consecutive day on Wednesday [7-26-17], questioning why Mr. Sessions has not fired the acting director of the F.B.I. over his wife’s political ties to Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump has previously criticized the deputy F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, who […]
7/26/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday [7-25-17] moved once again to punish so-called sanctuary cities, announcing that cities and states could lose millions of dollars in federal grants unless they began cooperating with immigration agents. Only hours before, President Trump had issued his latest public rebuke of Mr. Sessions, amplifying the […]
7/26/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has discussed with confidants and advisers in recent days the possibility of installing a new attorney general through a recess appointment if Jeff Sessions leaves the job, but he has been warned not to move to push him out because of the political and legal ramifications, according to […]
7/26/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For a week, some of President Trump’s top aides have tried to talk him down from his public campaign against Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It was exposing tensions within the administration, stirring consternation with the conservative base and setting off a revolt among Senate Republicans incensed over the treatment […]
7/26/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JEFF SESSIONS: “Why didn’t A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got… big dollars ($700,000) for his wife’s political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2017 08:48am to 08:52am […]
7/25/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDNET: “President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday and questioned the importance of Mr. Sessions’s early endorsement of Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but the president declined to say whether he planned to fire him. ‘It’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement,’ Mr. Trump said […]
7/25/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans and former Justice Department officials rallied around Attorney General Jeff Sessions as he continued to weather public criticism from President Donald Trump over his decision to recuse himself from investigations into Russia’s election interference, and other concerns. The defenders voiced their support in response to a flurry of […]
7/25/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/HILLARY CLINTON/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 05:12am […]
7/24/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/HILLARY CLINTON/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump turned up the pressure on his own attorney general on Monday [7-24-17], calling him ‘beleaguered’ in a tweet questioning why the Justice Department is not investigating Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump’s comments are remarkable because if the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is beleaguered of late it is […]
7/22/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/HILLARY CLINTON/INTELLIGENCE/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA: “So many people are asking why isn’t the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted?…What about all of the Clinton ties to Russia, including Podesta Company, Uranium deal, Russian Reset, big dollar speeches etc.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2017 06:47am […]
7/19/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Wednesday [7-19-17] that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision ‘very unfair to the president.’ In a remarkable public break with one of […]
7/19/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ methodical dismantling of the Obama administration’s criminal justice policies rolled forward Wednesday [7-19-17] as the Justice Department announced plans to step up efforts to seize property and money suspected of being used in crime or obtained through illegal activity. Sessions encouraged a return to the broader use of […]
7/17/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/POLICE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday [7-17-17] said he’d be issuing a new directive this week aimed at increasing police seizures of cash and property. ‘We hope to issue this week a new directive on asset forfeiture — especially for drug traffickers,’ Sessions said in his prepared remarks for a speech to […]
7/13/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPT/LEGAL: “The Justice Department on Thursday [7-13-17] announced charges against 412 people for $1.3 billion in health-care fraud, the largest such takedown in U.S. history. Many of the charges were related to doctors unnecessarily prescribing opioids, which then ended up on sale on the street, the department said. One fake rehab facility […]
7/12/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LGBTQ/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Democrats and LGBT groups assailed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for an off-camera, closed-door speech Tuesday [7-11-17] to an organization designated as a ‘hate group’ by a prominent civil rights watchdog. As announced on his public schedule, Sessions addressed a crowd at the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Summit on Religious Liberty in Orange […]
7/12/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/LEGAL/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is poised to announce a major law enforcement action this week targeting health-care fraud, focusing on opioid treatment programs exploiting Obamacare insurance plans, according to two people familiar with the matter. In what is described as a nationwide sweep with hundreds of arrests being carried out across […]
7/7/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/GUANTANAMO/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, were scheduled to visit the American wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Friday in a gesture of support for continuing to detain terrorism suspects without trial there and to prosecute some before a military commission. In a statement, Ian Prior, […]
6/30/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a vote of confidence Friday [6-29-17] to former FBI director Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading an investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, but he also said he hoped the investigation could ‘move forward and come to an end sooner rather than […]
6/13/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions infuriated Democratic senators Tuesday [6-13-17] by repeatedly thwarting their efforts to shed light on the firing of James Comey, as he blasted secret innuendo and leaks over his own conduct. In a fiery Senate intelligence committee hearing, Sessions raised his voice in indignation as he rejected […]
6/12/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify at a public hearing of the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday [6-13-17] afternoon, the committee said in a statement. This will be the first time Sessions has testified in Congress since he recused himself from the Justice Department’s probe into Russian meddling in last year’s election […]
6/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Former FBI Director James Comey told senators in a closed hearing Thursday afternoon that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have had a third interaction with Russia’s ambassador to the US, according to people familiar with the briefing. Comey explained that the possibility there could have been another encounter was not […]
6/8/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “The White House on Thursday [6-8-17] finally affirmed that President Donald Trump has confidence in his attorney general, two days after reporters first began asking whether he does. ‘Absolutely, the president has confidence in all of his Cabinet and if he didn’t they wouldn’t be here,’ White House deputy press secretary […]
6/5/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/POLITICS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Few Republicans were quicker to embrace President Trump’s campaign last year than Jeff Sessions, and his reward was one of the most prestigious jobs in America. But more than four months into his presidency, Mr. Trump has grown sour on Mr. Sessions, now his attorney general, blaming him for various troubles […]
6/1/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Congressional investigators are examining whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions had an additional private meeting with Russia’s ambassador during the presidential campaign, according to Republican and Democratic Hill sources and intelligence officials briefed on the investigation. Investigators on the Hill are requesting additional information, including schedules from Sessions, a source with knowledge […]
5/25/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to properly disclose his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a security clearance application, CNN reported on Wednesday [5-24-17] night. Sessions attributed the oversight to advice he received from an FBI employee who helped him fill out the form. The FBI employee told Sessions he […]
5/24/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials when he applied for security clearance because he was told not to do so by advisers and the F.B.I., a Justice Department spokesman said Wednesday. Mr. Sessions met with Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at […]
5/22/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday [5-22-17] clarified President Trump’s executive order on so-called sanctuary cities, narrowly defining such jurisdictions — and the money they could expect to receive from the federal government — in a way that appeared to fall far short of Mr. Trump’s previous threats to starve […]
5/18/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Louisiana has the nation’s highest incarceration rate. But this week, Gov. John Bel Edwards struck a deal to reduce sentences and the prison population, saving millions annually. If lawmakers approve the changes, Louisiana will be following more than 30 states, including Georgia, Texas and South Carolina, that have already limited sentences, […]
5/15/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “The attorney general on Friday [5-12-17] made an unfortunate announcement that will impact the lives of millions of Americans: he issued new instructions for prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious provable offenses, ‘those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences.’ Mandatory minimum sentences have unfairly […]
5/12/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors late Thursday [5-11-2017] to pursue the toughest possible charges and sentences against crime suspects, reversing Obama administration efforts to ease penalties for some nonviolent drug violations. The dramatic shift in criminal justice policy, foreshadowed during recent weeks, is Mr. Sessions’s first major stamp on […]
5/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/DRUGS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to soon toughen rules on prosecuting drug crimes, according to people familiar with internal deliberations, in what would be a major rollback of Obama-era policies that would put his first big stamp on a Justice Department he has criticized as soft on crime. Mr. Sessions […]
4/24/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Sunday he does not expect the Mexican government to outright pay for President Donald Trump’s border wall, but there are a number of ways to extract the billions of dollars needed to build it. Sessions made his comments in an appearance on ABC’s ‘This […]
4/21/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “The U.S. Justice Department has escalated its approach to so-called ‘sanctuary cities,’ writing at least eight jurisdictions Friday to put them on notice they could be failing to cooperate with immigration authorities. Alan Hanson, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s grant-making arm, warned the cities that they’re […]
4/18/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/DHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS/JOHN KELLY: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly say they are on a mission: dismantle transnational criminal organizations and stop gangs from pushing drugs over the southwest border. The two agency heads painted grim visions of a nation under siege on Tuesday [4-18-17]– using similarly ominous rhetoric in […]
4/20/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said this week he was amazed that a judge in Hawaii could block President Donald Trump’s executive order halting immigration from several majority Muslim countries. Sessions made the comments in an interview with ‘The Mark Levin Show’ Tuesday [4-18-17] evening that was put online Wednesday. ‘We’ve got […]
4/19/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “More than a month after Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed dozens of the country’s top federal prosecutors to immediately resign, not one of the 93 US attorney positions has been filled. ‘We really need to work hard at that,’ Sessions said Tuesday after being asked about the vacancies, The Washington Post […]
04/17/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/DHS/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS/JOHN KELLY: ” ‘Yeah, marijuana is not a factor in the drug war.’ That’s the blunt assessment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, speaking on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ yesterday. It marks an evolution from statements Kelly made last year, when he said the ‘hypocrisy’ of legalizing pot in the […]
04/11/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DOJ/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed attorneys from the Department of Justice on Tuesday [4-11-17] to increase the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, including laws against unlawful entry, human smuggling and identity fraud. It was yet another escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, and immigrant-rights groups blasted the policy […]
04/11/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors to pursue harsher charges against undocumented immigrants who commit crimes, or repeatedly cross into the U.S. illegally, and he promised to add 125 immigration judges in the next two years to address a backlog of immigration cases. The moves are part of the administration’s […]
04/04/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/POLICE/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a sweeping review of federal agreements with dozens of law enforcement agencies, an examination that reflects President Trump’s emphasis on law and order and could lead to a retreat on consent decrees with troubled police departments nationwide. In a memorandum dated March 31 and made […]
3/27/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday [3-27-17] that cities and states that protect immigrant felons from federal immigration laws may see cuts in grants from the Justice Department. ‘Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk, especially immigrant communities in the […]
3/28/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “It was an honor to welcome @GLFOP to the @WhiteHouse today with @VP Pence & Attorney General Sessions. THANK YOU for all you do 24/7/365! https://t.co/VHzTB4c69h” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2017 03:57pm […]
3/10/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions asked Friday [3-10-17] for the resignations of dozens of politically appointed U.S. attorneys held over from the Obama administration, the Justice Department said. Sessions wanted ‘to ensure a uniform transition’ to the Trump administration, spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement. ‘Until the new U.S. attorneys […]
3/10/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his testimony to a Senate committee that he had no communications with the Russian government. The complaint, filed with the Alabama State Bar’s disciplinary commission, comes less than two weeks after The Washington Post revealed […]
3/10/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/GUANTANAMO/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions thinks Guantanamo Bay is a ‘very fine place’ to send recently captured terrorists, and said he’d recommend President Trump to do so. The top law enforcement official added he was opposed to shuttering the controversial Cuban prison — a staple promise of the previous administration that never […]
3/6/2017
LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Sessions’ recusal in the Russian case places the investigation for now in the hands of Dana Boente, a career prosecutor and the acting deputy attorney general. Before Sessions was sworn into office, Boente briefly served as acting attorney general after Trump fired his predecessor, Sally Yates, for refusing to defend the […]
3/4/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/OBAMA/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 4, 2017 06:42am […]
3/4/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “The first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Amb was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs…” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 4, 2017 06:26am […]
3/2/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not…intentional. This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed…to win. The Democrats are overplaying […]
3/2/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions, facing a chorus of criticism over his contacts with the Russian ambassador, recused himself Thursday [3-2-17] from any current or future investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. His conversations with the ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, came amid suspected Russian hacking directed at Hillary Clinton’s campaign. […]
3/2/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last year with the top Russian diplomat in Washington whose interactions with President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn led to Flynn’s firing, according to the Justice Department. Sessions did not mention either meeting during his confirmation hearings when he said he knew […]
3/2/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday if the FBI determines that President Donald Trump’s campaign illegally coordinated with Russia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from making the decision whether to pursue prosecutions. Sessions, a Trump appointee, ‘cannot make this decision,’ Graham said. But Graham deflected a question about a Washington […]
3/2/2017
2016 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday if the FBI determines that President Donald Trump’s campaign illegally coordinated with Russia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from making the decision whether to pursue prosecutions. Sessions, a Trump appointee, ‘cannot make this decision,’ Graham said. But Graham deflected a question about a […]
2/23/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department’s use of private prisons. In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, Sessions wrote that the August 2016 memo by former Deputy […]
2/14/2017
TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS/MICHAEL FLYNN: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced growing pressure on Tuesday to remove himself from any role in investigating President Trump’s aides and their relationship with Russia, but advisers to Mr. Sessions said he saw no need to do so. The resignation of Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser over his conversations […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It is with great pride, very great pride, that I say these words to you right now: Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Welcome to the White House… He’s a man of integrity, a man of principle, and a man of total, utter resolve.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Swearing-In of […]
2/9/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: “At an Oval Office ceremony for the swearing in of Jeff Sessions as attorney general, President Trump announced that he was also going to sign three executive orders ‘designed to restore safety in America,’ to ‘break the back’ of cartels and ‘stop as of today’ violence against the police.” […]
2/8/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Congratulations to our new Attorney General, @SenatorSessions! https://t.co/e0buP1K83z” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 08:05pm […]
1/6/2011
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Mr. Sessions opposes using federal courts to prosecute Qaeda suspects. He supports holding those suspected of terroism at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. [In his 1-6-11 Press Release the Senator stated] ‘The president’s pledge to shutter Gitmo was built on the naïve premise that softening America’s image would somehow soften […]
2/8/2008
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Like President-elect Trump, Mr. Sessions has defended waterboarding as a useful interrogation tactic, even in the face of a Senate investigation that declared otherwise. [Senator Sessions’ statement in is 2-8-08 Senate Speech] ‘It worked. I hate to say, it worked.’ ” – Matt Apuzzo, “Jeff Sessions, in His Own Words,” New York Times, […]
6/27/2006
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Mr. Sessions supported a constitutional amendment that would have banned burning the American flag. [In Senator Sessions stated in his 6-27-06 Senate Speech] ‘Some would say: Well, you want to limit free speech when you want to stop burning the flag. Now, it is true that the Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 […]
12/15/2005
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Mr. Sessions strongly supports the USA Patriot Act, which he said provided necessary, common-sense powers for fighting terrorism. He defended President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping and opposed changing surveillance laws after Edward J. Snowden’s revelations. [In his Senate Speech on 12-15-05, Senator Sessions said] ‘The provisions in the Patriot Act are […]
7/13/2004
ATTORNEY GENERAL/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Mr. Sessions said that court rulings giving gay couples the right to marry eroded American culture and values. [During the Senator’s 7-13-04 Senate Speech he stated] ‘It is not disputable that adopting a same-sex marriage culture undermines and weakens marriage.’ ” – Matt Apuzzo, “Jeff Sessions, in His Own Words,” New York Times, […]
4/28/1999
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CABINET/JEFF SESSIONS: “Mr. Sessions has received A+ ratings from the National Rifle Association. He has opposed expanding background checks and requiring trigger locks. He argues for aggressive enforcement of existing criminal gun laws. [In his Senate Speech on 4-28-1999, following the Columbine Massacre, he stated] ‘It is hypocritical and really dishonest for the president to […]