Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I think it would be incumbent upon anybody who is holding the office of Attorney General at that time to carefully think his way through that to seek the advice and to follow the normal or appropriate..."

"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."

"A guidance document cannot amount to an amendment of a law. Bureaucrats do not have... to rewrite the law."

"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."