8 November 2018 - Congressional Democrats, concerned about protecting Mueller, called on Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself from overseeing the investigation in its final but potentially explosive stages.
7 November 2018 - Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out as the country's chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump.
27 June 2018 - Both the White House and Attorney General have used (and misused) a rudimentary and unverifiable statistic in order to downplay their roles in the family separation crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
26 June 2018 - Health and Human Services officials said they will reunite children with detained parents if Congress lifts a 20-day limit on child detention.
20 June 2018 - Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tolerance" immigration policy had harmed "thousands of vulnerable humans."
19 June 2018 - Attorneys, politicians, and journalists all describe a bureaucracy unprepared for the challenges of reuniting large numbers of children forcibly separated from their parents.
18 June 2018 - There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resulting in that outcome was enacted in May 2018.
15 June 2018 - Multiple news outlets reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is planning tent cities to accommodate a recent influx of immigrant children — but the practice is not new.
14 June 2018 - A quote widely attributed to the Attorney General appeared to stem from a viral video shared by Sen. Jeff Merkley's visit to a detention center.
11 June 2018 - Immigration lawyers have already vowed to take legal action against Sessions's ruling, which would deny asylum to almost all victims of gang violence and domestic abuse.
8 June 2018 - The Department of Health and Human Services announced that 10,773 unaccompanied immigrant children were indeed in detention facilities as of May 2018.
12 February 2018 - His comments were reportedly a reference to the legal tradition of common law that the American sheriff's system shares with England.
