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Jeff Sessions Just Resigned as Attorney General. Here’s a Timeline of His Rocky Relationship With President Trump

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Read the Resignation Letter Attorney General Jeff Sessions Submitted to President Trump

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Members of Congress Respond to Jeff Sessions' Firing

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Migrants Get a Second Chance at Asylum. But It's Still an Uphill Battle

Ruby Powers didn't rush to celebrate when her client, a Honduran mother who has been separated from her 15-year-old son and detained for four months, passed her second "credible fear" interview to restart the asylum...

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President Donald Trump is considering naming Emmet Flood to replace Don McGahn as White House counsel, according to two people familiar with Trump’s thinking, a pick that would put the President’s legal team in the...

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President Trump Told Congress Something Untrue. Here's Why That's a Big Deal

When President Donald Trump gave his first address to a joint session of Congress in February of 2017, he claimed that "the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came...

By Abigail Simon

Jeff Sessions Laughs as Students Chant 'Lock Her Up'

The Attorney General laughed and joined the crowd chanting the phrase frequently used about Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign

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The Trump Administration Dropped Asylum Protection for Survivors of Domestic Violence

"The asylum statute does not provide redress for all misfortune"

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Jeff Sessions Is Winning for Donald Trump. If Only He Can Keep His Job

Jeff Sessions is changing America for Donald Trump, whether the president appreciates it or not

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'We Must Confront This Problem.' Read Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Florida School Shooting

Jeff Sessions said that the Justice Department will make responding to school shootings a priority. Speaking to the Major County Sheriffs' Association Thursday, the attorney general said that the U.S. "must reverse these trends" and...

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Who Is Carter Page? Meet the Donald Trump Advisor at the Center of the GOP Memo

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Jeff Sessions Interviewed as Part of Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation

Robert Mueller's team interviewed Attorney General Sessions last week as part of its investigation, the Justice Department confirmed to TIME. Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores said the special counsel's office had interviewed Sessions in...

By Tessa Berenson

White House Crackdown on Legal Marijuana Could Hurt Republicans

"This is the opposite of what we should be doing"

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President Trump Wanted to Fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions for Not 'Protecting' Him. The Constitution Says That's OK

Since taking office nearly a year ago, President Donald Trump has shredded all kinds of political norms, especially when it comes to the justice system. From attacking judges and FBI agents to calling for investigations...

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Colleges Are an 'Echo Chamber of Political Correctness.' Read Jeff Sessions' Speech on Campus Free Speech

Colleges are an "echo chamber of political correctness," Sessions says

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Read President Trump's Full Statement on Rescinding DACA

'It is now time for Congress to act!'

By Kate Samuelson

Here's How the Trump Administration Will End the DACA Program

The White House hinted for days that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but on Tuesday it began to sketch out exactly how that will work. Speaking at the Department of...

By Maya Rhodan

Read a Transcript of Jeff Sessions Remarks on Ending the DACA Program

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Trump Administration will end a program that deferred deportation of undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children. "To have a lawful system of immigration that serves...

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Says DACA Program Will Be Phased Out

The Trump Administration has decided to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama-era program that has shielded almost 800,000 immigrants from deportation for the past five years. “The program known as...

By Maya Rhodan
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