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CNN
April 29, 2018
Washington (CNN) Jeff Sessions recently used his special authority as attorney general to review an asylum case that could have sweeping implications for how the US treats immigrants fleeing domestic violence. Newly released records now show that the case he handpicked, which involves a CentralÃâà...
KXLF Butte News
April 29, 2018
BILLINGS -- Speaking directly to Montana law enforcement during an appearance Friday in Billings, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said America is experiencing the deadliest drug crisis in American history. "There can be no doubt really that this is the deadliest drug crisis in our nation's history we hadÃâà...
KVRR
April 28, 2018
“They and their co–conspirators allegedly shipped fentanyl and fentanyl analogues from China through the mail and it killed people, killed people, in North Carolina, New Jersey, Oregon, and Grand Forks,” said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions announced in Fargo that ten additionalÃâà...
KULR-TV
April 28, 2018
The 84th United States Attorney General spoke for less than 25 minutes at the Rimrock Foundation. AG Jeff Sessions talked about how the U.S. must identify the drug problem in the country, as well as, what the top priorities are in solving the drug crisis. The attorney general explained that approximatelyÃâà...
RollingStone.com
April 28, 2018
The excerpt is illuminating: Erickson addressed the email – which included a proposed meeting between candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin – to Rick Dearborn, then a top Trump campaign staffer. But the full text suggests Sen. Jeff Sessions was directly in the loop. Erickson wrote:.
HuffPost
April 27, 2018
When Tim Purdon became U.S. attorney for North Dakota in 2010, he had a priority: improving public safety on the state's four Indian reservations. Prosecuting violent crimes on Indian reservations falls to the Justice Department, and Purdon himself had worked similar cases as a public defender beforeÃâà...
The Hill
April 27, 2018
If there is one event that best illustrates the need to reform our nation's pot laws, it would be this past weekend's National Cannabis Festival (NCF) in Washington, D.C. If there was ever a day to introduce legislative reforms, it was April 20 – which is exactly the date Sen Schumer (D-N.Y.) introducedÃâà...
CNBC
April 27, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended his decision not to appoint a second special prosecutor to investigate Republicans' concerns about the FBI by noting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe had already taken on "a life of its own." Speaking to a U.S. HouseÃâà...
The Missoulian
April 26, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will visit Billings Friday, April 27, to deliver a speech about the drug crisis in America. He will deliver his remarks at the Rimrock Foundation, 1231 N. 29th Street. The Rimrock Foundation is a substance abuse organization. CEO Lenette Kosovich said that Montana's U.S.Ãâà...
The Cannabist
March 31, 2018
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California, Oregon and other marijuana-friendly states are seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in hopes of resolving the conflict between federal and state laws that has left the nation's cannabis industry in legal limbo. Marijuana is illegal at the federal level,Ãâà...
Right Wing Watch
March 31, 2018
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) makes opening remarks to a panel of Department of Homeland Security officials before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2016. (Photo by Glenn Fawcett, via WikiMediaÃâà...
Newsweek
March 31, 2018
State treasurers from four states and leaders from the legal marijuana industry requested a meeting with fervidly anti-cannabis Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss how states where the drug is legal could comply and work within federal laws, according to a Thursday letter to Sessions. Treasurers fromÃâà...
RadioWest
March 30, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has tapped U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber to investigate Republican claims of FBI misconduct. Huber is Utah's lead federal prosecutor and although he was first appointed by a Democratic president, Barack Obama, he's raised his profile significantly under the TrumpÃâà...
Statesman Journal
March 30, 2018
LOS ANGELES — California, Oregon and other marijuana-friendly states are seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in hopes of resolving the conflict between federal and state laws that has left the nation's cannabis industry in legal limbo. Marijuana is illegal at the federal level, even asÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 30, 2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has questioned witnesses about an event connected to the Republican National Convention in 2016 attended by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Russia's U.S. ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to a new report. Mueller's team sought details aboutÃâà...
New Haven Register
March 30, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his record on the Russia investigation in a Time Magazine cover story published Thursday. He maintained that he had done the right thing in recusing himself from the probe. President Donald Trump has often feuded with Sessions about his recusal. SessionsÃâà...
SFGate
March 30, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions tamped down on Republican calls for a second special counsel on Thursday, announcing in a letter to several top GOP committee chairs that a special counsel to investigate possible FBI misconduct is not yet justified.
Virginian-Pilot
March 30, 2018
WASHINGTON — In a concession to conservatives clamoring for new investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails and the Justice Department's actions in the Russia investigation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday named a federal prosecutor from Utah to head the review. But he once againÃâà...
Leafly
March 30, 2018
President Trump's day probably won't be brightened by the issue of Time magazine that just dropped. On the cover: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, captured in all his ghoulish glory by photographer Philip Montgomery. The tagline: “Nobody's Above the Law,” a direct quote from the AG himself. This didn'tÃâà...
TIME
March 30, 2018
California, Oregon and other marijuana-friendly states are seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in hopes of resolving the conflict between federal and state laws that has left the nation's cannabis industry in legal limbo. Marijuana is illegal at the federal level, even as 29 states haveÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2018
Budgets were slashed, the school system was scrapped and studies were shelved as Attorney General Jeff Sessions brought to bear his tough-on-crime philosophy and deep skepticism of Obama-era crime-fighting policies. Now, nearly a year and a half later, the White House has declared that reducingÃâà...
Newsweek
March 28, 2018
California's Orange County will be joining a lawsuit launched by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions challenging the state's so-called sanctuary laws, which prevent local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. A board of supervisors voted to join Sessions' legal challenge,Ãâà...
NBCNews.com
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — Andrew McCabe, as the FBI's deputy director, authorized an investigation into whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied to Congress, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The investigation ended without criminal charges, according to Sessions's lawyer, and was notÃâà...
AL.com
March 22, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be back in Alabama on Friday. Sessions is scheduled to address the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Officers (NOBLE) at a luncheon for the group's executives. The event will be held at the downtown Sheraton, according to an announcement WednesdayÃâà...
SFGate
March 22, 2018
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe oversaw a criminal inquiry into Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his testimony to Congress about his contacts with Russian officials, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Slate Magazine
March 22, 2018
Devin Nunes' face on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' body and vice versa. ... But on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions played along, issuing a memo in which he “strongly encourage[d] federal prosecutors” to seek capital sentences “for certain drug-related crimes,” including those that do notÃâà...
CNBC
March 22, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not under investigation for misleading Congress or perjury by special counsel Robert Mueller, Sessions's lawyer said. Sessions reportedly was being eyed in 2017 by a probe then overseen by high-ranking FBI official Andrew McCabe because of his statements toÃâà...
Tampabay.com
March 21, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks to the National Association of Attorneys General at their Winter Meeting in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. ([Susan Walsh | Associated Press]. WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions will outline the administration's response to the opioidÃâà...
Tallahassee.com
March 21, 2018
When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions talks about the opioid epidemic in Tallahassee Thursday, observers hope the nation's top lawman will do more than talk tough about crime and punishment. Leon County Commissioner Bryan Desloge, a board member of the National Association of Counties, saidÃâà...
AlterNet
March 20, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he has recused himself from all Justice Department matters related to the 2016 election and the Clinton and Trump campaigns, but he seems unwilling to follow through on this pledge. First, he was involved in the infamous firing of former FBI Director James ComeyÃâà...
Politico
March 20, 2018
Former Attorney General Eric Holder says Jeff Sessions needs to “to have the guts” to stand up to President Donald Trump, suggesting the Justice Department leader may have rushed to fire former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe at the president's behest. Holder, who led the department under formerÃâà...
Newsweek
March 19, 2018
Updated | Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly faces questions about his testimony before a congressional committee in November, where he claimed to have shot down a proposal to consult with Russia during the president's 2016 campaign. The former Alabama senator told the House JudiciaryÃâà...
Vox
March 18, 2018
On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, allegedly for misleading investigators about authorizing a conversation between FBI officials and Wall Street Journal reporters in 2016. It was intended to rebut allegations that he had slowed down an investigation into theÃâà...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse," Trump tweeted after Sessions announced Horowitz would be probing the allegations. "Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on [former FBI Director James] Comey etc.
CNBC
March 17, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Friday evening, two days before he was slated to retire — and become eligible for full pension benefits. The move was applauded by the one person Jeff Sessions needed to please the most: President Donald Trump.
Slate Magazine
March 16, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to have made a New Year's resolution out of attacking California. In January, Sessions' Department of Justice supported conservative groups suing the state's school system for allegedly suppressing conservatives' free speech. The DOJ has also filed suit toÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 16, 2018
Sometimes, it seems as if, after the Trumpocalypse, all that will remain are cockroaches and Jeff Sessions. At other times, it seems the attorney general will be fired any second. Depending on which report you believe, President Trump's attorney general is his most loyal enforcer. As of this writing, SessionsÃâà...
The Root
March 15, 2018
The Trump administration is continuing their tradition of speaking to crowds that are largely favorable to their policies and on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Nashville. What is the International Association of Chiefs ofÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 14, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is abusing a little-used statute in an unprecedented way that is leading to an end run around the Senate's advice and consent authority with respect to U.S. attorneys. Given what we know about the ongoing investigations into the president and Trump's authoritarian instincts,Ãâà...
TIME
March 11, 2018
(WASHINGTON) — Federal prosecutors won't take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department's decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged U.S. authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is legal, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday.
Washington Examiner
March 10, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is still balking at the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate concerns with the Justice Department and FBI. Despite mounting pressure from top Republicans to appoint another independent counsel — there is already one special counsel, Robert Mueller,Ãâà...
CNN
March 10, 2018
Washington (CNN) US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday that increasingly frequent lower court rulings blocking controversial Trump administration policies are "unconstitutional." "The increasing frequency of limitless injunctions is simply unsustainable, and the ever-more extreme nature of someÃâà...
CNN
March 10, 2018
Washington (CNN) The US immigration courts are set up to give the attorney general substantial power to almost single-handedly direct how immigration law is interpreted in this country -- and Jeff Sessions is embracing that authority. Sessions quietly moved this week to adjust the way asylum cases areÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 10, 2018
Jeff Sessions addresses the California Peace Officers' Assn. in Sacramento on March 7. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) ... Here's part of a headline you probably did not expect to read above a Los Angeles Times editorial: “Thanks, Jeff Sessions.” Yes, you read that right: Although the U.S. attorneyÃâà...
CBS News
March 10, 2018
WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors won't take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department's decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged U.S. authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is legal, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday.
HuffPost
March 9, 2018
Exclusive: Here's Jeff Sessions' Draft Master Plan For The Justice Department. A draft strategic plan sidelines civil rights while emphasizing a crackdown on leaks and the MS-13 gang. By Ryan J. ReillyÃâà...
NBC Bay Area
March 8, 2018
The mayor of Oakland, California, responded to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions by repeating the “How dare you?” phrase he used after she warned of a recent federal immigration raid. Sessions criticized Mayor Libby Schaaf in a speech Wednesday to law enforcement officials after he sued CaliforniaÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
That was Attorney General Jeff Sessions announcing that the Justice Department is suing California over its so-called sanctuary laws. (Those are measures designed to make it more difficult for federal immigration agents to operate there.) Above, protesters outside the hotel where Mr. Sessions spoke inÃâà...
CNN
March 8, 2018
That is what Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a gathering of law enforcement officers in California on Wednesday, in announcing that the Trump administration was suing the state over its so-called sanctuary laws. Federal immigration law, Sessions emphasized, is the supreme law of the land.
CNN
March 1, 2018
The top three officials at the Justice Department strolled to dinner together Wednesday evening with smiles less than eight hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched his first public rebuttal to President Donald Trump's latest fusillade on Sessions' "disgraceful" handling of Republican allegations ofÃâà...
