Jeff Sessions actually said...

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

"I remember almost all the cases had an interstate commerce nexus. It was not the theft of an automobile that you prosecuted."

"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."

"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."