Attorney General
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just so happened to be investigating Jeff Sessions for misleading Congress when Sessions fired him.
By Tommy Christopher - March 21, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a lot to answer for, and almost no one on his side.
By Tommy Christopher - March 18, 2018
California lawmakers are fighting back against an absurd attack on their state from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 07, 2018
He’s still furious that Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe.
By Eric Boehlert - February 28, 2018
And Jeff Sessions is going to let them get away with it.
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2018
Over-the-counter headache meds are not always the answer to illness and pain.
By Matthew Chapman - February 08, 2018
The attacks by Trump and the GOP on the FBI have gotten so bad that even Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to speak up in defense of law enforcement.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2018
Trump will stop at nothing to stop the Russia investigation.
By Tommy Christopher - January 30, 2018
Jeff Sessions wants to strong-arm states and cities into racially profiling immigrants. California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will not be threatened.
By Matthew Chapman - January 25, 2018
It is all too easy to think the political firing of FBI director James Comey simply boiled down to a panicked Trump potentially committing obstruction of justice to cover his tracks. But other members of the Trump campaign may also have reason to want to quash an investigation including Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Buried […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 04, 2018
Donald Trump ordered top White House lawyer Don McGahn to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to an explosive new report that reveals the lengths to which Trump went to obstruct the probe. McGahn carried out Trump’s orders […]
By Caroline Orr - January 04, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided that the Department of Justice will start 2018 by launching a war on marijuana a move that is attracting massive blowback from all over the political spectrum. The decision is a nonsensical shift that will tie up millions while real crimes and dangerous drugs like opioids continue to […]
By Oliver Willis - January 04, 2018
In its endless and unprecedented attempt to criminalize Donald Trump’s political opponent, there’s a new report that Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice is moving to investigate Hillary Clinton, yet again, for the handling of her private emails while she was secretary of state. It’s an issue that has already been exhaustively explored by the FBI […]
By Eric Boehlert - January 04, 2018
Donald Trump loves to blame everybody around him for making mistakes that make him look stupid or foolish, even when the person who made the mistake is Trump himself. The Associated Press notes that Trump partially blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Republican Party’s humiliating loss of a Senate seat in ruby-red Alabama. But […]
By Oliver Willis - December 26, 2017
During Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing in January to become Donald Trump’s attorney general, he stressed that he would never personally oversee any investigation of Hillary Clinton. That’s because during the 2016 campaign, he had been so forcefully (and recklessly) critical of her. Sessions announced that meant he had a conflict of interest and would recuse […]
By Eric Boehlert - December 21, 2017
While national attention is focused on the Russia investigation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is quietly working behind the scenes to dramatically reshape the Department of Justice. With nationalism as his guide, Sessions is systematically revamping DOJ policies on everything from sentencing guidelines and civil rights protections to immigration laws and voting rights. The changes have […]
By Caroline Orr - November 25, 2017
The Trump administration has handed off $78.4 million to local police departments that have promised to do their dirty work and help round up undocumented immigrants. It is the latest instance of the Department of Justice, under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, pushing for Donald Trump’s discriminatory policies. The funds were given to […]
By Oliver Willis - November 21, 2017
Donald Trump and Mike Pence have hand-picked a group of hardcore evangelicals to participate in a Trump Cabinet Bible Study group. While it doesn’t appear that Trump himself attends the meetings, several other cabinet members do, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and Agriculture Secretary Sunny Perdue. The […]
By Lisa Needham - August 04, 2017
This piece was co-written by Shareblue staff writers Dianna E. Anderson and Ginger McKnight-Chavers. In an unprecedented move, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) testified before the Senate Judiciary committee at the Attorney General nomination hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions. These members were relegated by the committee’s schedule to the final hours of […]
By The American Independent Staff - January 12, 2017
(Full transcript is available here.) In an unprecedented move Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against a fellow sitting senator. Along with his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, Booker urged the committee to deny Jeff Sessions the Attorney General position, pointing to Sessions’ record on women’s rights, LGBT rights, and voting […]
By Dianna E. Anderson - January 11, 2017
For the first time, a sitting Senator will testify against another sitting Senator when Cory Booker (D-NJ) appears before the Judiciary Committee during Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination hearing for Attorney General. Booker explained his remarkable decision to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: .@CoryBooker will testify against his colleague @SenatorSessions: “These are extraordinary times” #inners https://t.co/7uhCLf8PaX — All […]
By Melissa McEwan - January 10, 2017
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has announced that he will oppose Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Following a meeting with Sessions, who is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing next Tuesday, Brown indicated that he is unconvinced that Sessions will defend civil rights — a […]
By Melissa McEwan - January 06, 2017
Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.
By Jesse Valentine
Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.
By Jesse Valentine
Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
By Jesse Valentine
Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.
By Jesse Valentine
Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.
By Jesse Valentine
Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.
By Jesse Valentine
McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.
By Jesse Valentine
Of the nearly dozen gun bills lawmakers will soon take up, one is particularly noteworthy because it’s backed by unlikely allies: mental health advocates and a pair of House members who’ve long been at opposite ends of firearm legislation.
By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin
The United Auto Workers of America endorsed the re-election of President Joe Biden Wednesday, just months after he became the first sitting U.S. president to walk a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan.
By Ashley Murray, States Newsroom
Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”
By Jesse Valentine
The state of Texas robbed Amanda Zurawski of her fertility and almost her life when it wouldn’t permit her an abortion so she’s gone to the state’s Supreme Court to change the law - “this is why I’m on earth”
By Bonnie Fuller
Health care-focused organizations across the state are hopeful that the 2024 legislative session will be a year that reins in health costs and allows patients to have greater access to the care they need.
By Danielle J. Brown, Maryland Matters
Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.
By Jesse Valentine
On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would make registering to vote an online experience.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin
Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
By Jesse Valentine
Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.
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Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine
Eric Hovde's proposal is similar to Sen. Rick Scott's unpopular 2022 plan to make every American pay income taxes.
By Jesse Valentine
A bipartisan package of bills in Michigan signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, creates specified criminal penalties for assaulting health care workers.
By Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance
Both former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Rep. George Santos have lied about their records and been accused of defrauding veterans.
By Jesse Valentine
Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.
By Jesse Valentine
More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.
By Jesse Valentine
Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine
The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.
By Jesse Valentine
It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today
Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, is challenging incumbent GOP Rep. Ken Calvert.
By Jesse Valentine
Ashcroft has criticized other campaigns for relying on out-of-state donors
By Jesse Valentine
Campaign says GOP Senate hopeful has no responsibility for facility and lawsuit lacks merit
By Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner
A federal law that allows emergency departments to treat patients without regard to their ability to pay will be under U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny this week, and Ohio doctors are concerned about the case’s local impact on emergency abortion care.
By Susan Tebben, Ohio Capital Journal
Virginia set to receive $156 million from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program
By Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury
‘Having the president of the United States speaking out loud and with confidence about abortion access is a great thing’
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix
A national group focused on expanding access to the ballot box for those with disabilities is launching a chapter in Alabama.
By Ralph Chapoco, Alabama Reflector
Organizers say fundraising begins now for inclusion on the 2026 ballot
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun
Bills that would allow trained pharmacists to prescribe birth control were approved Thursday by the Michigan House Health Policy Committee.
By Katie O'Brien Kelley, Michigan Advance