All posts tagged "Jeff Sessions"
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Authoritarianism
Trump Is Reportedly Considering Asking AG Jeff Sessions To Prosecute Mueller: NBC News
January 30, 2018President Donald Trump has been privately talking to his friends about possibly asking his Attorney General...
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NEWS
AG Sessions First Trump Cabinet Member To Be Interviewed In Mueller’s Trump-Russia Probe
January 23, 2018Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed for several hours last week by special counsel Robert Mueller’s...
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NEWS
Re-Criminalizing Cannabis Is Worse Than 1930s ‘Reefer Madness’
January 18, 2018Miriam Boeri, Bentley University In the 1930s, parents across the U.S. were panicked. A new documentary,...
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NEWS
Trump Ordered White House Lawyer To Stop Jeff Sessions From Recusing Himself In Russia Probe: Report
January 4, 2018President Trump ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to convince Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to...
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NEWS
Colorado U.S. Attorney Refuses To Change Marijuana Policy Despite Sessions Order
January 4, 2018The U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado has announced that he will not change his...
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DEMOCRACY
Colorado Dems To AG Sessions: Focus On ‘Corruption’ And ‘Crime’, Not ‘A Drug That’s Safer Than Alcohol’
January 4, 2018Colorado Democrats ripped Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s order rescinding an Obama-era directive that banned federal prosecutors...
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DEMOCRACY
Dem Rep. Ted Lieu Slams Sessions: He ‘Wants To Take America Back To The 1920s’
January 4, 2018Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Thursday slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to rescind an Obama-era...
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DEMOCRACY
Sen. Sanders Rips AG Jeff Sessions: Marijuana Is Not The Same As Heroin
January 4, 2018Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to rescind an Obama-era...
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Authoritarianism
Sessions To Kill Obama Policy Banning Enforcement Of Federal Pot Laws In States Where It’s Legal
January 4, 2018Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era directive that banned federal prosecutors from enforcing federal...
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DEMOCRACY
Ex-AG Holder: US Under Stress Test ‘The Likes Of Which We’ve Not Seen Since Watergate’
January 3, 2018Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the U.S. is undergoing a “stress test the likes of which we’ve...
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Authoritarianism
Trump Denounces ‘Disgraceful’ Not Guilty Verdict In Steinle Trial
November 30, 2017President Trump lashed out at the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Katie Steinle,...
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Authoritarianism
Sessions Lashes Out After Not Guilty Verdict In Kate Steinle Murder Trial, Attacks Sanctuary Cities
November 30, 2017Attorney General Jeff Sessions attacked sanctuary cities late Thursday night after an undocumented immigrant, Jose Ines...
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DEMOCRACY
Top Intel Dem: Sessions Refused To Say Whether Trump Asked Him To Derail Russia Probe
November 30, 2017Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Thursday...
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EQUALITY
Tillerson Condemns LGBT Discrimination After Trump Bans Transgender Troops
November 20, 2017Secretary of State Rex Tillerson released a statement Monday commemorating Transgender Day of Remembrance while also...