Jeff Sessions actually said...

"We could work out a lot more of these issues rather than having the heavy hand of the Federal litigation system come to play into forcing compliance by States."

"I do not favor personally this kind of work. I think it should be more productive work."

"I made a speech in favor of it saying what you are saying, that it was disproportionately impacting our African-American community and we needed to fix it, and eventually that was passed."

"That is the core responsibility of the Attorney General, absolutely."