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Jeff Sessions Just Made It Easier for Law Enforcement to Seize Your Assets Even if You Haven’t Been Convicted of a Crime
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it will be restarting the controversial “adoptive forfeiture” program, which allows local police departments and law enforcement agencies to seize the property of people suspected of a crime, even if they haven’t been charged with or convicted of one. This particular federal asset-forfeiture program, which is a very lucrative…
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The Senate Intelligence Committee Let Jeff Sessions Off the Hook
The Senate Intelligence Committee didn’t do its job. No one, not one person on the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked the question Attorney General Jeff Sessions needed to answer: How long has he been working for Donald Trump while secretly making cookies in a tree?! How do you have the head Keebler elf, arguably the highest-ranking…
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The Root Is Live-Blogging Jeff Sessions' Testimony to Congress Because We Hate Ourselves
Hello, y’all. I’m Michael Arceneaux, contributor to The Root and perpetual masochist. As the headline suggests, I’m here to live blog Attorney General Segregation Now, Segregation Forever Jeff Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. I’m surprised Sessions’ testimony is starting late given…
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It’s On Now: Jeff Sessions to Testify in Public Hearing Tuesday
Attorney General Jeff “I Hate Weed” Sessions will testify in a public hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon. But before we get too excited, remember that Sessions is a liar who met with Russians and completely forgot that he met with Russians during his confirmation hearing for attorney general. He…
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Fingers Crossed: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Threatens to Quit as Tension With Trump Escalates
Two days before former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, President Donald Trump’s world continues to unravel right before our very eyes. According to an unconfirmed report, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has threatened to quit his job amid rising tensions between him and the president. The friction…
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Where Can Jeff Sessions Go? To Hell. When Can He Go? Now
During the confirmation hearings for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, racist sum’bitch, his Republican colleagues went classic Americana on us as they quite theatrically conveyed their collective belief that the real burden of racism isn’t racism itself, but merely being accused of racism. There was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who told committee members during opening remarks,…
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Jeff Sessions Met With Emmett Till’s Family, but Will He Give Emmett Justice?
Emmett Till’s family members met privately with Jeff Sessions, head of the U.S. Department of Justice, to ask him for … well … justice. The U.S. attorney general met with Emmett’s cousin—Deborah Watts, the co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation—and Alvin Sykes, a member of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign, on Tuesday. Emmett’s relatives…
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President Vladimir TrumPutin Defends Jeff Sessions: ‘It’s a Total Witch Hunt’
President Vladmir TrumPutin doubled down on his Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday because he is in bed with the Russians too, claiming that Sessions, who never admitted to meeting with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.—twice—during the 2016 presidential campaign did nothing wrong. “Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything…
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Jeff Sessions Is a Casualty of Trump’s Fight With the Press
Donald Trump and the Trumpettes are quickly learning that picking a war with the media was a bad look. If you are going to go against a group of people whose job is to literally go through all your stuff to see what they can find, you better have your shit tight. And President Vladimir…
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Jeff Sessions Has Been Confirmed as US Attorney General
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was confirmed as the next U.S. attorney general on Wednesday, just one day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was silenced as she offered criticism of Sessions’ questionable past regarding racism and race issues in general. The New York Times reports that the Senate voted 52-47 to confirm, and no Republicans broke…