When Donald Trump issued a tweet reminding everyone that as president he has “the complete power to pardon,” did he mean to suggest that he can pardon himself? Or simply to boast that he can ...
Stephen Colbert allowed "beleaguered" Jeff Sessions onto The Late Show to address his fast deteriorating relationship with President Donald Trump, who has this past week publicly criticized the attorney general for recusing himself on matters ...
There is no more talented comic actor working today than Kate McKinnon, the Saturday Night Live star renowned for her portrayal of Kellyanne Conway. But she also does a mean Jeff Sessions impression — and ...
Commenting on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Senate Intelligence Committee testimony on Tuesday, Meyers flashes back to his earlier appearance before the before the Judiciary Committee, when he wrongly told Senator Al Franken (D-MN) that he'd ...
In his historic appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, James Comey explained calmly and cogently how he had approached his fraught relationship with the new president: From day one, the former FBI director said he ...
The Trump rationale for firing Comey -- as stated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -- is obviously false for several reasons, even aside from the fact that Trump had ...
"It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission," Trump said in a letter to Comey released by the White House.
During Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearings, Senator Richard Selby claimed that the Alabama senator's history of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented." At that, activist and CodePink member Desiree Fairooz laughed, ...
To Danziger, the operative word in the phrase "sanctuary cities" is cities -- and he frankly doesn't expect the mayors of tough towns like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles to knuckle under to ...
Yes, Donald Trump campaigned on draining a swamp full of elites. But we shouldn't be so naive as to believe that he we speaking about all the elites. He meant just the elitists who want ...
Why would Danziger suspect that Jeff Sessions, who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, would wink at police beatings of unarmed citizens? Perhaps because the Attorney General instantly set to work subverting every effort to ...
On February 28, Sessions told the National Association of Attorneys General. "We need, so far as we can, in my view, help police departments get better, not diminish their effectiveness." Afterwards, he told reporters “So ...
Last February, the Trump administration abruptly abandoned the crux of the Justice Department's opposition to Texas' voter ID law. Government lawyers also asked the judge to delay her decision on whether the law intentionally discriminated ...
The criminalization of opioid use often has fatal consequences, because it leaves addicts to obtain supplies from street dealers rather than pharmacists. The drugs they get may be surreptitiously laced with fentanyl or other synthetic ...