Tag: Attorneys General

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been criticized for answers he gave Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., regarding contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Jeff Sessions to Democrats who accuse him of lying: ‘I don’t think it’s right to accuse me of doing something wrong’

Melissa Quinn · November 14, 2017 7:13 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Jeff Sessions vows: ‘We will not be infected by politics or bias’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 14, 2017 6:01 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions explained that his old comment in which he implied that people who smoked pot weren't good people was delivered decades earlier, and was in the context of trying to reduce drug use in the U.S. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Democrat tattles on Republican pot smokers

Kelly Cohen · November 14, 2017 5:09 pm

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, the new head of the Republican Attorneys General Association, said, "Just as I have done in Arkansas, Republican attorneys general will defend the rule of law and serve as the champions of opportunity." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Republican Attorneys General Association selects new leadership ahead of 2018 elections

Ryan Lovelace · November 14, 2017 3:50 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving open the possibility that a special counsel could be appointed to look into Clinton Foundation dealings and an Obama-era uranium deal, the Justice Department said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

National Security

Jeff Sessions considering investigation into Clinton Foundation, despite pledge to recuse himself

Kelly Cohen · November 14, 2017 3:40 pm

Sessions' camp seemed to immediately shoot down the idea. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

White House officials float possibility of replacing Roy Moore with Jeff Sessions

Gabby Morrongiello · November 13, 2017 9:07 pm

Sessions' camp seemed to immediately shoot down the idea. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Roy Moore and Jeff Sessions: Two problems — and a solution

Daniel Oliver · November 12, 2017 7:39 pm

"I don't like to use that term [racist] unless you've got really hard and fast proof, but I think he's done some things in his career and as attorney general that I think have been racially insensitive, and there are times when I think he's racially unaware," Holder said. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Eric Holder: Jeff Sessions has been ‘racially insensitive,’ ‘racially unaware’

Melissa Quinn · November 7, 2017 5:42 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has twice gone before Senate committees to divulge details of his contacts with Russian government officials when he was part of Trump's presidential campaign team in 2016. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

National Security

Jeff Sessions likely to be on defensive before House Democrats next week

Kelly Cohen · November 7, 2017 5:36 pm

Trump Can’t Tweet Tax Reform to Victory

Fred Barnes · November 6, 2017 4:50 pm

"Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Maxine Waters to Jeff Sessions: ‘Time to go back to the plantation’

Ariella Phillips · November 3, 2017 8:50 pm

Page told the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he mentioned to then-Sen. and now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions he was traveling to Russia in June 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Carter Page: Telling Jeff Sessions of Russia trip ‘was as irrelevant then as it is now’

Kelly Cohen · November 3, 2017 12:53 am