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  1. Nick Saban Gets Crushed in Alabama Senate ElectionMany thought Saban would get many write-in votes in a Senate contest between an alleged predator and a Democrat. He did not.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. Jones Upsets Moore and Humiliates Trump in Deep-Red AlabamaOn the back of strong turnout from African-Americans and a superior campaign, Doug Jones pulled an upset that will echo into next year’s midterms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. After NYC Blast, Trump Calls for Restricting ImmigrationUnder Trump’s proposed immigration system, the would-be subway bomber would have never made into the U.S., according to the White House.
    By Eric Levitz
  4. Jeff Sessions Hints at a Coming Crackdown on Recreational WeedThe attorney general says marijuana is “detrimental” and the DOJ is reviewing its policy concerning legalization in the states.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  5. Kellyanne Conway Is Now America’s Opioid CzarClearly, the best person to lead the response to the opioid crisis is a polling expert with a penchant for lying on cable news.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. Report: Sessions Asks Where American Terror Suspects Are ‘Originally’ FromA revealing question from the attorney general.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. Jeff Sessions, the JokesterUndermining the rule of law for a cheap laugh isn’t funny.
    By Cristian Farias
  8. ‘Any Russians’ in the Room? Jeff Sessions Cracks a Joke About Russian CollusionVery funny, sir.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  9. Jeff Sessions Can’t Recall a Lot of Things“I can’t believe I can’t remember that.”
  10. the national circus
    Frank Rich: The GOP Can’t Handle Moore ProblemsThe harebrained schemes of hypocritical party leaders trying to jettison the Alabaman are worthy of the Three Stooges.
    By Frank Rich
  11. The Fight Over Roy Moore Is Beginning to Divide the Alabama GOPEven as high-ranking state GOP office-holders refuse to come to Moore’s defense, the state party chair is threatening loss of ballot access.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. Sessions: I Can Only Remember the Parts of 2016 That Exonerate MeHe doesn’t remember a Trump aide proposing a meeting with Russians — but does remember shooting down that aide’s suggestion.
    By Eric Levitz
  13. the law
    Sessions Directed DOJ to ‘Evaluate’ GOP Calls for More Clinton InvestigationsHouse Judiciary Committee chair Robert Goodlatte has asked for a second special counsel to investigate various allegations involving Democrats.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. Only One Man Can Save the Alabama Senate Race for the GOPSo long as Roy Moore stays in the race, there’s only one man who could beat him as a write-in. And it’s not Luther Strange.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Politics Chat: What Will the GOP Do With Moore’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations?Five Daily Intel staffers try to parse the GOP’s options. It’s going to be a mess.
    By Jonathan Chait, Ed Kilgore, and Ezekiel Kweku
  16. Justice Department Won’t Continue Prosecuting Jeff Sessions Ridiculer After AllThis was a very strange case.
    By Benjamin Hart
  17. Sessions’s Russia Testimony Looks More Dubious, But Don’t Expect Perjury ChargesDemocrats want the attorney general to explain why he failed to mention that Carter Page and George Papadopoulos told him about their Russia contacts.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  18. The Obscure Legal Issue That May Foil Criminal-Justice ReformLast year, Trump, Sessions, and McConnell killed criminal-justice reform. This year the big problem is a fight over criminal-intent requirements.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Sessions Sends DOJ Lawyer to Prosecute Murder of Transgender Iowa TeenThe attorney general vowed to “enforce hate crime laws aggressively,” despite making other moves to limit transgender rights.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  20. Trump Administration Gave 500,000 Fugitives the Right to Buy GunsBlue lives matter to this White House — but ensuring that people with outstanding arrest warrants can still purchase assault weapons matters more.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. Sessions Issues ‘License to Discriminate’ to Conservative ChristiansLike Obama’s immigration actions that Sessions and Trump deplore, today’s “guidance” offers mercy to potential law breakers: just a different kind.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. Can Jared Kushner Save Criminal-Justice Reform From Jeff Sessions?Bipartisan criminal-justice reform failed last year, in part because of the Trump campaign and Jeff Sessions. But now Jared Kushner is onboard.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. Democrat Doug Jones Has a Slim — But Real — Chance of Upsetting Roy MooreIt will depend on convincing Alabamians that Moore will embarrass their state.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the national interest
    Jeff Sessions Picks a Very Bad Week for a Sermon on Free SpeechThe Snowflake Administration supports the First Amendment for campuses only.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. Experts: Murder Rate Appears to Have Stopped RisingThe rise in murder rates in many major cities appears to be over, but it’s left a legacy in reactionary “crime wave” rhetoric and policies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions Worse Than We KnewWhen Trump learned of the Mueller investigation, he called Sessions an “idiot” — and said that hiring him was one of the worst mistakes of his life.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. Jeff Sessions Wanted to Use Polygraph to Find White House Leakers: ReportHe’s talked about having everyone on the National Security Council take the test.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  28. 15 States Sue Trump Over Decision to End DACAAttorneys are arguing that the president was motivated by racism.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  29. the law
    Trump’s Cowardly Dodge on DACAThe president has again demonstrated that the rule of law is a nonconcern for his administration.
    By Cristian Farias
  30. Could Trump Hold Dreamers Hostage for Border-Wall Funding?The administration may be forced by the courts to cancel protection for Dreamers. So it could be time for a grand bargain to get border-wall funding.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. solar eclipse 2017
    Please Enjoy These Photos of Politicians Awkwardly Watching the EclipseTrump seems to be the only one who dared to risk staring at the sun without eclipse glasses.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  32. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Calls Charlottesville Murder ‘Domestic Terrorism’A far stronger response than the president has mustered.
    By Benjamin Hart
  33. Jesus, Trump, and Guns: Luther Strange’s Ultimate Alabama GOP AdIn a race marred by negative ads, Senator Luther Strange has a positive spot that’s got more shout-outs to conservative icons than you can count.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. immigration
    Chicago Sues Over Sanctuary City Threat, Sessions Blasts City’s ‘Lawlessness’The city says the Justice Department’s new qualifications for federal grant money are “unauthorized and unconstitutional.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. legal challenges
    How Jeff Sessions Might Channel the Far-Right Crusade Against Affirmative ActionThe DOJ inserting itself into this debate would represent a dramatic break with history and prior practices.
    By Cristian Farias
  36. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Says He’s Cracking Down on Leakers, BiglyMore resources to sniff out the culprits, and a review of the subpoena policy.
    By Jen Kirby
  37. russia investigation
    How Senators Are Trying to Block Trump From Firing MuellerThey unveiled two bipartisan bills that would require judicial review of any effort to oust the special counsel.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  38. Can Trump and Sessions Kill Criminal-Justice Reform? Probably Not.While Trump’s election showed a return to “backlash” criminal-justice policies was politically feasible, state and local decision-makers matter more.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. David Alan Grier Joins the Fight Against White Discrimination on ‘Jimmy […]In response to the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has directed the Justice Department to investigate discrimination against white […]
    By Megh Wright
  40. Kris Kobach Wants a Promotion. But Will He Stay in Topeka or Head to D.C.?The famous immigrant-baiter and vote-suppressor is running for governor, but certain moves by Trump could mean Kobach’s future is in D.C.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. Jeff Sessions Is Still Cool With Trump After Constantly Being Humiliated by HimTheir shared dark vision of the world unites them.
    By Benjamin Hart
  42. Jeff Sessions Takes a Stand Against Protecting Gay WorkersThe Dept. of Justice’s new position is that federal civil-rights law doesn’t cover employees targeted by anti-gay bias
    By Cristian Farias
  43. Graham to Introduce Bill Limiting Trump’s Ability to Fire Special Counsel“Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency,” the senator said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  44. the national circus
    Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Single LensIt explains his otherwise inexplicable attacks on staunch ally Jeff Sessions.
    By Frank Rich
  45. Trump Assures Lawyers That His Attacks on Sessions Are Wholly IrrationalTrump insists that his harassment of Sessions can’t be obstruction because he has nothing to hide, is just doing all this out of pointless spite.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. the national interest
    Scaramucci: Trump So ‘Direct’ He Won’t Say If Sessions Is FiredJust imagine how an evasive president would handle this situation.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. Republicans Rally Around Jeff Sessions After Trump’s Latest AttackHe may have picked the wrong target for his outrage this time.
    By Benjamin Hart
  48. the national interest
    How Trump Can Make His Authoritarian Fantasies Real, UpdatedIn one all-too-easy step, the president could free himself from the Russia investigation.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. Ted Cruz Not Interested in Being Trump’s Next Beleaguered Attorney GeneralHe’s already passed on the opportunity to be dragged into the Russia scandal.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  50. White House Floats Rudy Giuliani As Attorney GeneralWhether Trump would actually nominate him may not be the point.
    By Benjamin Hart
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