Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a sweeping review of agreements that the Obama administration struck with police departments to reduce civil rights abuses, and while many of those consent decrees are legally binding in court, Sessions does have a way out of them if he wants.

Sessions has directed his staff to make sure all department programs adhere to the Trump administration’s policy of backing up police officers as they work to reduce violent crime. That includes consent decrees reached under Obama in the wake of high-profile violence between cops and black citizens in the local community.