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Nov 2, 2023 · Sessions, a former U.S. senator from Alabama who was U.S. attorney general at the time the policy was implemented, cited precedent that courts can’t compel presidential cabinet officials to...
Jun 30, 2020 · Nineteen years before the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Sessions tried to upend Garland’s confirmation to the U.S. Court...
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Jun 16, 2021 · In a pair of decisions announced Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland is vacating several controversial legal rulings issued by his predecessors — in effect, restoring the possibility of...
Jan 23, 2021 · Jeff Sessions impeded inquiry into role in Trump’s family separation policy. Read more. The policy ultimately led to the separation of about 1,550 children from their parents, hundreds of...
Jun 16, 2021 · Attorney General Merrick Garland vacated two iterations of the decision known as “Matter of A-B” – a decision made by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018 that set a high bar for...
Jun 16, 2021 · The two decisions, issued by former Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr, made it harder for asylum-seekers fleeing violence by private actors, including domestic partners and gang...
In the decision known as Matter of A-B-, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared that people escaping domestic violence and gang brutality “generally” should not receive asylum.
