Jeff Sessions actually said...

"We could work out a lot more of these issues rather than having the heavy hand of the Federal litigation system come to play into forcing compliance by States."

"I do not favor personally this kind of work. I think it should be more productive work."

"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."