One of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s most important acts in office was his genuinely swamp-clearing 2017 reversal of a corrupt Obama administration practice at the Department of Justice. Sessions forbade the department from reaching settlements with deep-pocketed defendants that involved cash payments, not to taxpayers or victims, but to third parties — in practice, often to left-wing social justice organizations.
“When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people,” Sessions said, “not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power.”
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