Jeff Sessions actually said...

"I think that is a very dubious practice. I would be cautious about it, and we would have to make sure it is justified."

"That is a pernicious and dangerous shift in the general attitude toward our police and it is totally without foundation."

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

"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."