Over-the-counter headache meds are not always the answer to illness and pain.

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.

Trump will stop at nothing to stop the Russia investigation.

Jeff Sessions wants to strong-arm states and cities into racially profiling immigrants. California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will not be threatened.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]