Jeff Sessions actually said...

"A lot of the cases they cite, isn't it a fact that the defendants were convicted, some given the death penalty, some given life without parole, and they're cited in a way that suggests that somehow ju..."

"Why don't we make all crimes Federal crimes then?"

"I would just note that perhaps the authorization of funding to create tasks forces and studies of these kind of crimes would be an appropriate role for the Federal Government."

"I think it is overly broad. I'm pretty confident of that."