Latest Moves

2019: Sessions Reported $108K In Speaking Fees From Young America’s Foundation, Skybridge Capital, Electric Cities Of Alabama. [Senate Financial Disclosure – Jeff Sessions, filed 5/15/20]

Sessions Is Represented By Worldwide Speakers Group. [Young America’s Foundation, accessed 11/13/20]

Fee Quoted On Young America’s Foundation Site Is “$20,000+”. [Young America’s Foundation, accessed 11/13/20]

Sessions Appeared On Newsmaker Segment For Center For Immigration Studies. [CIS YouTube, accessed 11/9/20]

Recent News

Justice Department IG Investigation Found That Sessions Instructed Prosecutors “We Need To Take Away Children.”  “…the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general into Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy. “We need to take away children,” Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes. One added in shorthand: “If care about kids, don’t bring them in. Won’t give amnesty to people with kids.”” [New York Times, 10/6/20]

New York Times: Sessions “Pushed Aggressively To Expand The Practice” Of Family Separation Prosecutions. “After the pilot program in Texas ended, the report asserted, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Rosenstein pushed aggressively to expand the practice across the entire southwestern border, with help from prosecutors.” [New York Times, 10/6/20]

April 2018: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Announced “Zero Tolerance Policy For Criminal Illegal Entry.” In April 2018, the Department of Justice announced that “Attorney General Jeff Sessions today notified all U.S. Attorney’s Offices along the Southwest Border of a new ‘zero-tolerance policy’ for offenses under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), which prohibits both attempted illegal entry and illegal entry into the United States by an alien… Today’s zero-tolerance policy further directs each U.S. Attorney’s Office along the Southwest Border (i.e., Southern District of California, District of Arizona, District of New Mexico, Western District of Texas, and the Southern District of Texas) to adopt a policy to prosecute all Department of Homeland Security referrals of section 1325(a) violations, to the extent practicable.” [US Department of Justice Release, 4/6/18]

Sessions Had Begun Working On “Legal Implications” Of Family Separation Policy “Soon After He Started At The Justice Department.” “Sessions began working through the plan’s legal implications soon after he started at the Justice Department. In April 2017, he traveled to Nogales, Ariz., and promised to take a stand against violent cartels and gang members, as well as smuggling guides. Sessions directed all federal prosecutors across the country to make immigration cases a higher priority and look for opportunities to bring serious felony charges against anyone crossing the border illegally.” [Washington Post, 6/19/18]