Jeff Sessions

They deserve the same protection that any entity--business or otherwise--is entitled to, when people violate the law and carry out improper threats or blockades of their business.

They would be enforced until there is an alteration of it, yes.

Those decrees still remain in effect in a number of districts.

I know of no policy that would suggest that something like that would be done, and I would not push for it.

Certainly you are correct that that cohort of individuals should not be targeted and given priority anything like that which should be given to criminals and people who have had other difficulties in the United States.

I was happy that that solution was reached, yes. Very much.

It did not deny 250,000 people the right to vote. That would be utterly wrong and should be stopped immediately.

I am not sure it has been conclusively settled one way or the other whether a properly conducted voter ID system is improper and discriminatory. Indeed, the Supreme Court has held that voter ID is legitimate, at least under certain…

As I said, I supported the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act with Section 5 in it. When the Supreme Court said it was no longer necessary that Section 5 be in it, I did not support the language that you and Senator Leahy offered…

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.

African Americans were being discriminated against systematically in voting.

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

I do not think we have to agree on everything.

When we enter into a trade agreement with a foreign nation, we have to understand that it is just a simple contract.

I think it is a good thing that a police department might call on Federal investigators and a team to work with their police department to identify any problems and to help select remedies.

We made real reform in IDEA. I led that effort. We ended up having the vote of Hillary Clinton and Dick Durbin.

The IDEA creates lawsuit after lawsuit, special treatment for certain children, and is a big factor in accelerating the decline in civility in classrooms all over America.

It is not true that refugees do not commit terrorist acts. There is a danger, even in the refugee population.

I think the American people are entitled to know, of those who are committing terror plots against us, how many are coming in through a broken immigration system.

Nobody is above the law.

It is perfectly proper, decent, and correct that this Nation not allow people who come here on a visa or illegally to remain here after they have committed crimes.

First and foremost, the immigration policy of the United States should serve the national interest, the people's interest.

Donald Trump has also said that he believes criminal aliens obviously should be the top priority.

I believe we have failed in dealing with criminal aliens.

It is a lot easier to be vigorous and outspoken. But it is different as you begin to think about the awesome responsibility of serving as an Attorney General.