Attorneys Take Challenge of Trump’s Whitaker Appointment to SCOTUS
A group of attorneys petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to determine whether President Donald Trump’s appointment of acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker is valid.
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Acting Attorney General Has Questioned Mueller Investigation
The man who will serve at least temporarily as the nation’s top law enforcement official is a relatively inexperienced Republican Party loyalist from Iowa who has called for limiting special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Read moreJeff Sessions Resigns as Attorney General at White House Request
Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned Wednesday as the country’s chief law enforcement officer, saying in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump that he was doing so at “your request.”
Read moreAttorney General Blasts Police Reforms in Chicago Speech
Slamming police reforms proposed by the city’s mayor and the Illinois attorney general, U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech Friday in Chicago about a favorite topic of the White House – crime in the Windy City,
Read moreSessions Slams Proposed Chicago Police-Reform Plan
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked a federal judge Friday not to get involved with police reform in Chicago and reject a consent decree that the city and Illinois have been working on together for almost a year.
Read moreChicago Accuses Sessions of Flouting Sanctuary-City Ruling
Chicago claims U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions still refuses to release millions in federal policing funds because the city will not cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration policies, despite a nationwide injunction declaring such withholding unconstitutional.
Read moreWhite House Commits $90 Million to Fight Wildlife Trafficking
Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to London on Thursday to announce the United States will invest a minimum of $90 million to counter illegal wildlife poaching and trafficking over the next year.
Read moreTrump Breaks Silence on Manafort, Deflects on Pardon
During a scrum with reporters outside of the White House Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump broke his silence on former campaign chair Paul Manafort who last week pleaded guilty to federal charges in Washington.
Read moreSessions Lambasts Educators for Allegedly Stymieing Free Speech
Free speech in higher education is under threat because a culture of censorship that caters to student outrage is spreading in favor of open engagement on unpopular or even discredited ideologies on campus, academics and Department of Justice Officials said at a forum held Monday.
Read moreLA Wins Round in Fight Over Justice Department Grant
A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Trump administration exceeded its authority when it withheld a 2017 public safety grant from Los Angeles over its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Read moreSessions Tells Judges Efficiency Key to Handling Ballooning Immigration Dockets
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a class of newly-minted immigration judges on Monday that they have an obligation to decide cases efficiently in a system besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs.
Read morePermanent Injunction Likely to Block Sanctuary City Cuts
A federal judge signaled Wednesday that he will likely block the Trump administration from cutting off grant funds to San Francisco and California for refusing to help detain and deport undocumented immigrants.
Read moreTrump Escalates Feud With AG Sessions
President Donald Trump escalated his long-running feud with Attorney General Jeff Sessions Friday, calling on him to probe a litany of recurring complaints against those investigating his administration and Democrats.
Read moreSessions Vows DOJ Won’t Bow to Political Considerations
WASHINGTON (CN) – Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday promised he would not allow the Justice Department to be “improperly
Read moreSessions Hits Trump Back: Won’t Be ‘Improperly Influenced’
President Donald Trump, newly incensed by campaign allegations, plunged back into his criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, claiming in an interview that Sessions “never took control of the Justice Department” after Trump put him there. Sessions quickly hit back, declaring that he and his department “will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.”
Read moreSessions Slams Court Rulings Against Trump Policies
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told judges and lawyers Friday at an Eighth Circuit conference in Iowa that courts should get out of the way and let the executive branch do its job.
Read moreUS Returns Family Deported Against Judge’s Order
Ordered by a federal judge to “turn that plane around,” attorneys for the U.S. government confirmed Friday that they have returned to Texas a mother and child whom they deported the day before to El Salvador.
Read moreSanctuary Cities
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions filed an appeal Wednesday of a federal judge’s permanent injunction against the Trump administration’s effort to block so-called sanctuary cities from getting law enforcement grant funds.
Read moreSessions: US Culture ‘Less Hospitable to People of Faith’
American culture has become “less hospitable to people of faith,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in vowing that the Justice Department would protect people’s religious freedom and convictions.
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