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 would agree with that. As you formulated, I believe it would be wrong to further some other separate, discrete agenda that is not reasonably connected to the merger itself."

"I do not believe that the statute can be disregarded, and it should be followed."

"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."