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Jeff Sessions

With Hundreds of Children Still Detained, Sessions Instructs Judges to Show Less 'Sympathy' for Immigrants

'A Definitionally Impeachable Offense': Blatant Trump Call to Weaponize DOJ for Political Ends Clear Violation, Say Legal Experts

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The president is now arguing that the Justice Department should make its justice decisions based on what's best for the Republican Party."

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US President Wakes Up, Orders Nation's Top Law Enforcement Officer to Target His Political Enemies

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"No, it's not normal for the president to be issuing official statements going...

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After Trump Again Attacks AG, Battered Minion Jeff Sessions Brags About His 'Unprecedented' Role in Pushing Despicable Agenda

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Their latest public spat comes as top GOP senators signal the possible ouster...

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'I Just Fight Back': Trump Celebrates Firing of Peter Strzok, FBI Agent at Center of Unhinged Conspiracy Theories

ACLU Demands Courts Protect Refugees Fleeing Domestic and Gang Violence After Sessions 'Illegally' Revokes Asylum Rights

With Latest in 'Long Line of Obstructive Acts,' Trump Calls on Sessions to End Mueller Probe 'Right Now'

Critics Decry 'Twisted and Dangerous' Views Espoused by Jeff Sessions and His 'Religious Liberty Task Force'

"Violence against women, and particularly domestic violence, around the world is a violation of human rights and an issue of public health." (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

'Shame on Him': 75 Democrats Decry Jeff Sessions' Inhumane Decision To Close Door on Asylum-Seeking Domestic Violence Victims

migrant mother and child

"These Are Prisons for Babies": Forcibly Separated From Parents, Youngest Kids Sent to So-Called "Tender Age" Detention

Sessions' Separation of Families Results in Charges of Child Abuse and Immorality From His Own Church

"Appalling. Inhumane. It Needs to Stop." Trump Policy Has Ripped 2,000 Kids—47 Per Day—From Parents in Just Six Weeks

'Monstrous': GOP Using 'Kidnapped' Immigrant Children as Hostages to Advance Anti-Immigrant Agenda

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'Horrific': Sessions Says Survivors of Domestic and Gang Violence Will No Longer Qualify for Asylum

As Judge Slams Family Separation as 'Brutal, Offensive' Conduct, Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Policy Advances

'Tremendous Defeat' for Trump's DOJ as Judge Rules in Favor of Philadelphia's Sanctuary City Status

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Common Cause

Senate Must Reject Efforts to Undermine the Mueller Investigation by Changing the Department of Justice’s Chain of Command

Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Justice Department’s ‘Religious Liberty Summit’ Offends The True Meaning Of Religious Freedom, Says Americans United

The New York Immigration Coalition

US Blocks Victims Fleeing Domestic Violence

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Attorney General's Call for the Death Penalty in Drug Cases...

Common Cause

White House FBI Interference Flouts Rule of Law

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Setting The Record Straight: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds To AG Sessions’ Statement Marking MLK Day

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Have Democrats Forgotten About This Summer's Immigration Debacle?

Robert Weissman

'Tough on Crime' Jeff Sessions Touts Plummeting Corporate Crime Enforcement Like It's an Achievement

Gus Bova

The Trump Administration's Own Numbers Show "Zero Tolerance" Didn't Work

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

Trump’s Racism Coils Around Black Children, South American Immigrants

Laura Flanders

Jeff Sessions Sets Back the Clock

Karen Greenberg

A Children’s Gitmo on the Border: Heartless America’s Latest Nightmare

Josh Bell

How the Justice Department's Seizure of a Reporter's Email Records Subverts the Free Press

Maria Cardona

America Is Better Than Trump's Cruel Immigration Policies

Ralph Nader, Robert Weissman, et al.

An Open Letter to Jeff Sessions on Corporate Crime

Robert Weissman

The Trumpy Awards, Round Five: Worst Cabinet Member

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