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Following Jeff Sessions’ repeated claims Tuesday that it would be "inappropriate" for him to answer certain questions, the New York Times put together a refresher on executive privilege and how it's triggered. The key here appears to be the difference...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 03:01 PM PDT
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Damn straight:
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has a message for Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Don’t get in the way of our medical marijuana program.
The Keystone State’s Democratic governor sent a letter to Sessions on Thursday, following...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 02:38 PM PDT
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Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced
When witnesses are called before a Congressional committee to testify under oath, they are required to answer the questions put to them unless they can assert a legal basis for refusing to do so. Such...
by Lovechilde
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 02:33 PM PDT
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions might not recall anything about anything, but an American lobbyist who is paid to work on behalf of Russian interests says he attended two dinners with Sessions during the 2016 campaign. That directly contradicts what...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 11:41 AM PDT
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Whatever happened to the Republicans’ supposed enduring love for state’s rights? This is a question worth asking because Jeff Sessions’ latest move to impede states from legal medical and recreational marijuana use demonstrates the exact opposite. In...
by Kelly Macias
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 12:15 PM PDT
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Between 30,000 and 60,000 women were burned
at the stake or drown in wells or violently
murdered in the witch hunts of Europe
from 1100 AD to 1700 AD.
They were often women of property whose
holdings would go to the Church and/or...
by MRN 8255000
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 12:17 PM PDT
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The Trump administration continues to send the message loud and clear that it sees civil rights as optional. Under the leadership of Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice seems to be moving away from consent decrees—court-enforced agreements that...
by Kelly Macias
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 08:26 AM PDT
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In his June 13, 2017, testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly denied suggestions that he had improper contact with Russian authorities or hurt this country, which he claimed to have served with...
by stonehenge
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 05:50 PM PDT
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At yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing into the Trump/Russia soap opera, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
But the Attorney General’s ”truth” came wrapped...
by dailynooze
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 03:59 PM PDT
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Kate’s incredible.
I’m dying here…
“Now, Sergy Kislyak, I only met him two times… okay three times….and the third time was in a men’s restroom and we was just talking about what a trial it was getting soap out of those little electric soap...
by durrati
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 03:51 PM PDT
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by brooklynpaul
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 02:05 PM PDT
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Democratic Senator, Kamala Harris, representing California, did what she does best yesterday as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. A former prosecutor, Senator Harris knows the best way to get to the truth is to not allow a witness to...
by ReasonaBill
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 08:32 AM PDT
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In an interview with NPR’s Ari Shapiro, University of Texas Professor of Law Steve Vladeck states that Jeff Sessions had no legal grounds not to answer questions on his discussions with President Trump about Russia, in his Senate testimony Tuesday.
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by AveryU
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 03:23 AM PDT
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There were other things I wanted to satirize about the Jeff Sessions testimony—the sexist treatment of Senator Kamala Harris for example—but a dearth of technical skills and voice talent (plus my desire to keep up with a swiftly moving news cycle) led...
by Poorly Animated
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 02:22 AM PDT
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We owe the Rosenberg a huge ass apology. 4 comments
on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 10:30 PM PDT
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Jeff Sessions has told lie after lie...not recalling a thing...including whether or not a president has a right to keep his tapes...Surely the guy was around during Watergate….but he does not recall...so why is he Attorney General. ? 5 comments
on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 10:21 PM PDT
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Bang ! Bang ! Bang ! The Congress Chairman’s gave; banged loudly throughout the over-crowded, august Chamber.
“Sir, if you could give us your name and your titular title, U. S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, these Honorable Congressmen of the...
by Leah Sellers
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on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 07:37 PM PDT
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How did this guy get through his Job Interview, with that memory of his, as leaky as a disgruntled staffer in the White House ...
25 Times Jeff Sessions Had a Convenient Memory Lapse While Testifying
by Tessa Stuart, rollingstone.com —...
by jamess
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on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 07:04 PM PDT
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As Sessions Testifies, GOP Schemes to Sell Off Public Assets, Gut Bank Reforms: 'BradCast' 6/13/2017 Guest: Journalist David Dayen | Also: How to win young voters and the House Dem caucus rift over impeachment...
On today's BradCast, the latest testimony you probably already know about, and the Republican/Trump schemes on banking regulations,...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 06:40 PM PDT
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Jeff Sessions displayed several moments of passion during his Tuesday testimony, but none of them had anything to do with the fact that a subversive foreign power hacked our election.
Sessions complained bitterly about smears on his reputation and...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 04:55 PM PDT
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