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As the world knows, the President disagreed with me on recusal, but I did what the law required me to do. I was a central figure in the campaign and was also a subject of and witness in the investigation and could obviously not legally be involved in investigating myself. If I had ignored and broken the law, the Democrats would have used that to severely damage the President. Some have asked, why take the job as Attorney General if I knew I would have to recuse myself from the investigation? I knew no such thing. I wasn’t informed of...

Department of Justice prosecutors have a handful of vague laws they turn to when they want to take down a Republican politician. The laws sound like serious offenses to the average person, but are much more innocuous. For example, mail and wire fraud merely means someone used the mail or wire communications to send communications that were related to an alleged crime of trying to deprive someone from money or property. It’s really just piling on. Another one is false statements. That’s a charge prosecutors turn to when they are having no luck showing the validity of the main charges. When...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear on Thursday what would happen if President Donald Trump fires his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. “If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay,” he told CNN. Graham also said he is looking to introduce legislation next week that would block the firing of special counsels without a judicial review. Rumors have been swirling around Capitol Hill this week that Trump is looking to dispose of Sessions and Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to investigate Russia’s election interference, and any potential links between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign....

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo directing federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest charges against most criminals.The memo to the nation’s 94 U.S. attorneys says they should “charge and pursue the most serious and readily provable offense.”It also triggers mandatory minimum sentences, which will increase prosecutions and prison populations. The tough-on-crime approach is a reversal of the “Smart on Crime” drug sentencing policy under former President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, which sought to avoid incarcerating people who committed low level non-violent crimes. The Obama administration used the “Smart on Crime” policy to combat what they believed was a...

The current proposal being considered in the House of Representatives in response to the president’s dangerous refugee plan — the American SAFE Act — fails to defend the interests of the American people. It is based on a flawed premise, as there is simply no way to vet Syrian refugees. Just over a month ago, officials from the Department of Homeland Security admitted before the Immigration Subcommittee that there is no database in Syria against which they can run a check. They have no way to enter Syria to verify the applicants’ personal information. And we know the region is...

Right after he learned something that amplified his anger at the Obama White House, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) went on the Mark Levin radio show with a tough message for his colleagues in Congress: Stop “cowering and hiding under our desks”; instead, says Sessions, go ahead and use “the power of the purse” to block Obama’s executive amnesty affecting close to 5 million illegals. What the Alabama Republican had just learned that further stiffened his resolve to stop the president’s unilateral move to change immigration law is that the administration is hiring 1,000 new people to process amnesty requests from...