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“You know I’m totally off script right now, and this, you know, is how I got elected, by being off script,” he said. “And if we don’t go off script our country is in big trouble, folks.”

Activist and CNN host Van Jones credited reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Friday for helping move the president on the issue of criminal justice reform.

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said when they worked together former Attorney General Jeff Sessions made “racist comments.” McCabe said, “I had the benefit with working closely several attorneys generals. The things that I saw,

President Donald Trump and GOP legislators are withholding their approval as top congressional staffers and leaders work behind closed doors to write the critical details of the 2019 spending plan for border security and the border wall. 

Democratic legislators are using the budget/wall negotiations to reopen catch-and-release loopholes that have been narrowed by President Donald Trump’s appointees. 

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was not “bright enough” for the position, and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is a “train wreck.” Christie said, “Mike Flynn from the time I

Attorney General nominee William Barr said in 2017 that he believed there was more basis to investigate failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her alleged role in the Uranium One agreement than President Donald Trump’s purported collusion with the Russian government in the 2016 election. 

Hondurans who want to escape poverty and corruption are launching another caravan of migrants towards the Californian border, according to the Washington Post. 

Jerry Nadler sent a letter to the Acting Attorney General Matthew seeking his testimony before panel members on the Russia probe.

House Republicans on Monday requested an update from U.S. Attorney John W. Huber, the prosecutor appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review decisions made by the top levels of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for bias.

As the White House continues negotiations with Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, there has been one immigration deal that has yet to die: Amnesty first, a border wall last.

The incoming House Judiciary Committee chair reiterated his pledge to compel Whitaker to testify before Congress on the Russia probe.

The United States agreed in 1980 to implement the United Nation’s rules on refugees. This means a group of recently deported migrants must be flown back to the U.S. and be given another chance to win asylum, a Democratic-appointed judge declared December 17.

President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the FBI prosecution of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, wondering why they never did the same to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered major wins for President Trump’s administration on the immigration front in 2018, effectively putting into place legal reforms at the U.S.-Mexico border that significantly increased the number of illegal aliens prosecuted and convicted. 

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in Fiscal Year 2018 deported more than 256,000 illegal aliens out of the United States, including about 6,000 suspected or known gang members. 

More than 95 percent of illegal aliens who applied for or renewed their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status — which provides temporary amnesty — received approval in the past two years of President Trump’s administration.

The United States murder rate in 2018 is projected to experience the largest drop in a half-decade, one of the country’s leading crime analysts says.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) made a mistake recently when he announced that he wouldn’t vote to confirm Tom Farr for a federal district court slot in North Carolina. This was after Scott voted in favor of cloture for Farr, which

President Donald Trump said former Attorney General William Barr was his “first choice since day one” to replace Jeff Sessions as his new attorney general, both men favoring pro-enforcement policies regarding immigration.

Over 400 former DOJ employees have come out in protest of Trump’s appointment of Whitaker as acting Attorney General.

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has been struck from the informal list of possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a report by NBC News.

Stocks in companies dealing in cannabis- and marijuana-related products have risen since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the Trump administration, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) offered his thoughts on who should replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions during an interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House. 

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is defending the legality of President Donald Trump’s appointing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, showing the president’s decision is consistent with the Constitution, federal law, and Supreme Court precedent, as the State of Maryland seeks a court order ousting Whitaker.

The Justice Department released a legal opinion Wednesday outlining why Matthew Whitaker can legally serve as the interim Attorney General.

The lawsuit by pro-migration, pro-caravan groups against President Donald Trump’s border policy will get a hearing on November 19 in a San Francisco courtroom. The judge is expected to freeze Trump’s pro-American reform and allow the growing number of caravans and

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Live,” Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe said the state of Maryland’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s “phony” acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker had merit. Tribe said, “The fact is that this a lawsuit brought against Attorney General

President Trump is planning to remove Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, potentially in the coming weeks, a new report claims.

Heather Mac Donald — the New York Times bestselling author, Manhattan Institute fellow, and City Journal contributing editor — says there was “nobody more essential to carrying out” President Trump’s “America First” agenda than former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. 

On this weekend’s broadcast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” show cast member Kate McKinnon got at least one more chance to showcase her Jeff Sessions impersonation. Sessions resigned from the attorney general post of the Trump administration’s Department of Justice

President Donald Trump’s forced exit of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a huge loss for Trump’s populist agenda, says Heather Mac Donald, a writer for the free-market Manhattan Institute.

Friday on PBS’s “Washington Week,” NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator predicted that President Donald Trump would be “stuck” with former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) to fill the U.S. Attorney General void left behind from Jeff Sessions’ resignation earlier this week.

As former Attorney General Jeff Sessions departed the Department of Justice (DOJ), a short list of potential replacements has surfaced in Washington, D.C. 

“Why don’t you do this, why don’t you ask Kellyanne that question, she might know him better than me,” Trump replied.

During an interview aired on Thursday’s edition of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and replaced him with Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to interfere with Special Counsel Robert