Jeff Sessions actually said...

agencies oftentimes see themselves as independent fiefdoms.

I think the problem there is a desire to achieve a result sometimes that overrides their commitment to the law.

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...