Republicans in Congress's upper chamber have at the same time softened their rhetoric on Sessions, with some openly accepting he will now be replaced but urging him to stay on until the midterm elections.
"I'm afraid, based on Trump's rhetoric and Sessions' background, that we're going to see a decline in enforcement, and investigations will slow down".
"I'm afraid, based on Trump's rhetoric and Sessions' background, that we're going to see a decline in enforcement, and investigations will slow down," Yeomans said.
Trump's "law and order" rhetoric and Sessions' support for draconian drug sentences make further federal movement on mandatory minimum sentencing tougher to envision.
Regular readers of The Fact Checker may recall we've dug into Sessions rhetoric on immigration before, often giving him Pinocchios for statements that are thin on the facts.
Sessions' rhetoric sounds all too familiar to Kevin Ring, the author of another mandatory-minimum law who ultimately ended up in prison himself.
Sessions's rhetoric acknowledges the risks that civil forfeiture poses to innocent property owners like Young.
Is this just one more instance of Sessions' inflammatory rhetoric or is the rise in new cases due primarily to fraud and lawyers, as he claims?
In terms of the contemporary Christian Right, these authors along with Gary Allen, John Stormer, Tim LaHaye, Larry Abraham and a few others wrote the books that contain the basis for almost all the Values Voter rhetoric, slogans, and workshop sessions decried as lunatic by the Left over the past week.
Amid calls by Jerusalem's mayor, Nir Barkat, to seal Palestinian neighbourhoods of the city, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, ratcheted up his rhetoric at a special session of the Knesset on Tuesday evening.
