Trump’s Justice Department has a powerful tool to fight police abuse. It refuses to use it.
Posted on AllSides June 30th, 2020
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Jefferson Beauregard Sessions was about to become irrelevant.
It was his last day in office. Donald Trump’s attorney general, formerly a US senator from Alabama, had lost favor with the president for failing to stop the special counsel investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.
But he wasn’t quite done yet. Shortly before Sessions left the Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 7, 2018, he circulated a memo to senior Justice Department lawyers announcing a new policy.
The memo concerned consent decrees, a kind...
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