Tag: AG Sessions

Their lives were transformed by DACA. Here’s what will happen if it disappears.

The following article by Maria Scchetti was posted on the Washington Post website September 4, 2017:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Sept. 5 that the Trump administration is rescinding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, calling the program “an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws.” (Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

A former waiter, born in El Salvador, now writes code for a U.S. Navy contractor. A young man from South Korea is using the money he makes selling pastries to help pay for community college. And a psychology major from Ecuador, who feared she’d be stuck babysitting all her life, now plans to earn a doctorate and move to New York. Continue reading “Their lives were transformed by DACA. Here’s what will happen if it disappears.”

Democrat to ‘Lyin Sessions’: Stop the lies and the leaks will go away

The following article by Brandon Carter was posted on The Hill website August 5, 2017:

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) this week blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement that the Department of Justice is considering stricter measures to prevent leaks, saying the leaks would stop if there were no “lies, crimes and stupid stuff.”

“Dear Lyin Sessions: Leaks are interesting if they expose lies, crimes & stupid stuff,” Lieu tweeted Friday. “Stop the lies, crimes & stupid stuff and leaks go away.” Continue reading “Democrat to ‘Lyin Sessions’: Stop the lies and the leaks will go away”

Sometimes it’s ‘normal’ to meet with foreign officials. For Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador, it wasn’t.

The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website July 22, 2017:

The accounts from Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to his superiors, intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, contradict public assertions by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Post’s Greg Miller explains. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)

As members of the Trump campaign team defend themselves from questions about contact with Russians, a common explanation has been: 1) It’s normal to meet with foreign officials and 2) We forgot about those meetings, because they were so normal.

To which former U.S. intelligence officials and security experts say: Those meetings are not normal, at least not in this extraordinary moment. Continue reading “Sometimes it’s ‘normal’ to meet with foreign officials. For Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador, it wasn’t.”

Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show

The following article by Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller was posted on the Washington Post website July 21, 2017:

Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump — were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign. Continue reading “Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show”

Sessions learns loyalty can be a one-way street with Trump

The following article by Abby Phillip was posted on the Washington Post website July 20, 2017:

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Nothing is more important to President Trump than loyalty — to him.

In business and in politics, he has demanded it from the people closest to him. Some employees who abandoned him were never welcomed back. Politicians who did not defend him after the most politically damaging moments of the 2016 campaign are still suspect in his eyes. And after six months as president, Trump is still known to publicly jab at people who did not support his presidential bid.

But as Attorney General Jeff Sessions learned this week, the loyalty Trump expects isn’t always reciprocated. Continue reading “Sessions learns loyalty can be a one-way street with Trump”

Jeff Sessions wants police to take more cash from American citizens

The following article by Christopher Ingraham was posted on the Washington Post website July 17, 2017:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday 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 the National District Attorney’s Association in Minneapolis. “With care and professionalism, we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures. No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime. Adoptive forfeitures are appropriate as is sharing with our partners.” Continue reading “Jeff Sessions wants police to take more cash from American citizens”

Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research.

The following article by Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson was posted on the Washington Post website February 15, 2017:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions takes the oath of office in the Oval Office on Feb. 9. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The Justice Department just got a new boss: Jeff Sessions. He is raising alarms in the civil rights community. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is concerned about his “record of hostility” toward the Voting Rights Act and the enforcement of civil rights. The NAACP-Legal Defense Fund lamented that it is “unimaginable that he could be entrusted to serve as the chief law enforcement officer for this nation’s civil rights laws.” No one knows for sure how Sessions will perform as attorney general — the former Republican senator from Alabama did, after all, once vote to renew the Voting Rights Act, in 2006 — but for many his record is deeply troubling. Continue reading “Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research.”