WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Wednesday at President Donald Trump’s request, ending the tenure of a beleaguered loyalist whose relationship with the president was ruined when Sessions recused himself from control of the investigation of Russian interference ...

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In July 2017, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., assured us there would be “holy hell to pay” if President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Key GOP senators said they wouldn’t even hold hearings on a replacement. Even a few ...

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WASHINGTON – As the Supreme Court considered whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross must answer questions in a court case about why he decided to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday publicly attacked ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump talked recently with Jeff Sessions’ own chief of staff about replacing Sessions as attorney general, according to people briefed on the conversation, signaling that the president remains keenly interested in ousting his top law enforcement ...

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WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats say they are troubled by new questions about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ contention that he discouraged a former Trump campaign adviser from arranging a meeting between then-candidate Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, but there is anxiety ...

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WASHINGTON – Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump replaces Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his new nominee would have to promise the Senate that he would allow special counsel Robert Mueller to complete his investigation. ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to terminate the investigation into Russian campaign interference “right now,” forcing his lawyers to scramble to clarify that the president was not ordering Sessions to take a specific ...

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The migrant crisis unfolding at the southern border has created new quandaries about the bounds of acceptable political discourse, as Republican officials involved in defending or carrying out the president’s policy of separating migrant children from their families have been ...

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WASHINGTON – Just two hours after President Donald Trump on Tuesday had again attacked him on Twitter, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sat before a convening of government officials tasked with preventing elder abuse. His prepared remarks called for him to ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue will continue as the chief prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, a region that includes Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. Donoghue was appointed to the position by U.S. Attorney General ...

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Next week, top executives from the nation’s largest distributors of prescription painkillers will testify before Congress about the role their companies played in the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that if he were still ...

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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate panel Wednesday that he believes President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon anyone and does not need to confer with the Justice Department, which traditionally has assisted presidents in ...

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