Jeff Sessions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Thursday the Justice Department would “rescind” the department’s previous directive to scale back the use of private prisons. “I hereby rescind the memorandum dated August 18, 2016, sent to you…

With Barack Obama in the White House, transgender Americans had the federal government solidly in their corner in their pursuit of the legal right to use public restrooms that match their gender identity. That corner might now be empty.…

The Senate narrowly voted to approve Alabama Sen. Jeff B. Sessions on Wednesday as the 84th attorney general of the United States, bringing an end to what had been one of President Donald Trump's most disputed Cabinet appointments. The…

For two decades in the Senate, Jeff Sessions led an anti-immigration crusade that made him an outlier in GOP politics raging against illegal immigration and an excess of foreign workers well before Donald Trump tore onto the political…