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 did sponsor the Congressional Gold Medal Act that gave the Gold Medal to the Selma and Montgomery marchers."

"I said then and I say now, it was necessary that the act be intrusive because it had to force change, and it would not have happened without the power of the Federal Government. That is a plain fact."

"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."