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Overseen by independent monitors to ensure that necessary changes are being made in these departments. senator sessions, you once wrote that, and i quote, "consent decrees have a profound effect on our legal system as they constitute an end run around the democratic processes." currently, more than 20 police departments around the country are engaged in consent decrees with the justice department. in maryland, baltimore mayor catherine pugh said monday she expects her city to finalize a consent decree with the justice department this week, as noted in the "baltimore sun." my question is, will ...

Necessarily the same as his job as -- if he gets confirmed as an attorney general. in one case he is trying to shape laws and advocating for laws or voting against laws. in another, he is slated to uphold the laws that already exist. are you not confident that he as a professional, he as a lawyer, as a civil servant, will be able to disassociate himself from his own personal viewpoints? and uphold the laws as they stand on the books? >> well, if you look at his record from when he was attorney general in alabama or you look at his complete body of work, part of the role of the attorney general...

The government but does that mean that things always work perfectly as you noted in one of your responses in the real world. police officers work and build strong relationships with their communities to keep the public safe, there have been specific use of force deadly incidents that have sparked nationwide outrage. some of these incidents have led the attorney general's civil rights division to do investigations into whether individual police departments have a, quote/unquote, pattern of practice, unquote, of unconstitutional policing and to make sure police departments are compliant with the...

Previo previously. consent decrees have been used in this area in disability rights to make sure folks with intellectual disabilities have access to services and education, but also in policing. police chiefs and elected officials as we've spoken about in communities across country have in some cases invited doj to open civil rights investigations of their police departments and have invited them to enter into consent decrees in order to implement reforms to law enforcement in order to make sure that they improve the quality of police/community relations and respect for civil rights. do you pl...

Every public school in america, saying if they don't allow students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity, they could lose federal funding. so, it seems likely that that will change. and then the whole question about the justice department's pretty aggressive use of these consent decrees, these pattern and practice investigations of the nation's police departments. will this justice department under jeff sessions continue that pretty aggressive use of that? we've seen something of a practical consequence of this in baltimore. we expect that baltimore and the justice department ...