Dec 12, 2017 · Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, appointed in 2017, the fate of the Cole Memo is newly uncertain. Despite trends in expert and popular opinion advocating drug policy reform, the DOJ has signaled that it may reinvigorate the criminalization of marijuana users.
Nov 08, 2018 · (FILES) This file photo taken on February 9, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump alongside US Attorney General Jeff Sessions after Sessions was sworn in as... Nov. 7, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC / Updated ...
Dec 21, 2017 · Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that, pursuant to Executive Order 13777 and his November memorandum prohibiting certain guidance documents, he is rescinding 25 such documents that were unnecessary, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper. “Last month, I ended the longstanding abuse of issuing rules by simply ...
Jan 02, 2018 · The attorney general has also focused on civil rights, and made the constitutional meaning of that term a DOJ priority. First, Sessions’ focused DOJ on religious liberty. “Our freedom as citizens has always been inextricably linked with our religious freedom as a people,” he said when announcing new religious liberty protections, authorized on May 4 by President …
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia intruding upon the presidential elections just keeps pulling down individual after individual. Now, the highest law enforcer in the country, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, could be in deep trouble. During Sessions’ confirmation hearings last January, Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota asked the future AG, …
A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in the administration of President Donald Trump. From 1981 to 1993, Sessions served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
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In August 2012, Sessions married Karen Diebel, a 2010 congressional candidate in Florida and a Trump Administration appointee to the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Pete Sessions is not related to former Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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In the order of creation, the position of attorney general was the fourth cabinet level position created by Congress, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorneys general may be impeached and removed from office by Congress. As of 2013 the office of U.S. Attorney General has been held by eighty two people.
Of the 50 Attorneys General, 25 do not have a formal provision specifying the number of terms allowed. Of the 44 elected attorneys general, all serve four-year terms with the exception of Vermont, who serves a two-year term. 11 face a two term limit, otherwise unspecified.
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Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that, pursuant to Executive Order 13777 and his November memorandum prohibiting certain guidance documents, he is rescinding 25 such documents that were unnecessary, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper. “Last month, I ended the longstanding abuse of issuing rules by simply publishing ...
On November 17, the Attorney General issued a memorandum prohibiting DOJ components from using guidance documents to circumvent the rulemaking process and directed Associate Attorney General Brand to work with components to identify guidance documents that should be repealed, replaced, or modified. The Task Force has already identified 25 guidance ...
In March, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13777, which calls for agencies to establish Regulatory Reform Task Forces, chaired by a Regulatory Reform Officer, to identify existing regulations for potential repeal, replacement, or modification.
As expected, last night the U.S. Senate confirmed Senator Jeff Sessions as the next Attorney General:
As expected, last night the U.S. Senate confirmed Senator Jeff Sessions as the next Attorney General: