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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks about crime to law enforcement officials in St. Louis in March 2017. ... For nearly 25 years, the federal government has been investigating police departments ...
Nov 8, 2018 · Attorney General Jeff Sessions signed a memorandum yesterday providing direction to all civil litigating components and United States Attorneys’ Offices (USAOs) on the principles that should be followed when resolving a civil lawsuit against a state or local governmental entity. State and local governments have unique roles under the Constitution, and the Department is committed to ensuring ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Eric Lach writes about the defeat of Jeff Sessions, the Trump Administration’s first Attorney General, in an Alabama Republican-primary runoff for his former U.S. Senate seat.
Dec 22, 2016 · The DOJ’s so-called “consent decree” was established in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Rodney King riots, and it allows the department’s Civil Rights Division to sue local police forces ...
Jan 30, 2017 · At his confirmation hearing, Sen. Jeff Sessions testified that he reveres the Constitution and is committed to the rule of law. If he intends to fulfill the Justice Department’s obligation to ensure that police officers also adhere to the rule of law, he must rethink his skepticism of the DOJ’s single-most important tool to reform troubled police departments: consent decrees.
Apr 5, 2017 · As new Attorney General Jeff Sessions signals his Justice Department may back out of such federal agreements with troubled police departments, a look at some of them shows they can be popular but ...
Apr 19, 2017 · Out of 19 investigations carried out since 2010, six are considered “ongoing.” Jeff Sessions said in 2008 that “One of the most dangerous, and rarely discussed, exercises of raw power is the issuance of expansive court decrees.
