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Attorney General Sessions is withdrawing the Department of Justice's view that Texas' voter ID law is discriminatory just ahead of an important hearing in a federal case challenging the Texas law. The Justice Department has held the position for 6 years that Texas' voter ID law discriminates against both black and Hispanic voters.
Plaintiffs tell me DOJ plans to withdraw its position that Texas' ID law is intentionally discriminatory. /1
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Since the current Administation nominated Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, the question has not been 'if' but 'when' he would take action to enforce Federal laws contradicted by legalized recreational marijuana use laws in seven states and Washington DC.
Advocates of liberal marijuana laws have eyed the arrival of Attorney General Jeff Sessions with unease. The former Republican senator from Alabama has a long track record of speaking out against marijuana use.
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One would think that the health of our nation’s citizens is a unifying issue. Politicians on both sides of the aisle, however, have used the Affordable Care Act, and ultimately public health, as a partisan political tool at the expense of their constituents.
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In a reversal of an Obama-era order to phase out the use of private prisons, Attorney General Sessions issued a brief memo directing "the Bureau to reutrn to its previous approach."
The Justice Department will once again use private prisons to house federal inmates, reversing an Obama-era directive to stop using the facilities, which officials had then deemed less safe and less effective than those run by the government...
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In another move that increases the power of internet service providers, such as Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, and others, the Federal Communications Commission paused the roll-out of previously approved regulations requiring companies to inform their customers about what information is collected about them and how it is being used.
The newly appointed Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is moving to scale back the implementation of sweeping privacy rules for Internet providers passed last year.