Jeff Sessions actually said...

The Solicitor General should have told the Attorney General, 'We cannot not defend that statute. It does not comply with the law.'

Sessions insists on the Solicitor General's duty to defend statutory law.

03/29/2011

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It just makes perfect sense to me that these cases would be tried there.

I think it is pretty clear that the administration has been slow in making those nominations.

You declared in this Committee directly that it was going to be tried in New York, and you defended that as an appropriate way.

I hope that you will review that, and I hope the New York case will be the beginning of a re-evaluation of that policy.