The Latest: Sessions won't say if he'll jail journalists
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October 19, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee (all times local):
2:45 p.m.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is refusing to pledge that he won't seek to jail journalists for doing their jobs.
Under questioning at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, Sessions said he could not make that "blanket" commitment.
His position is a reversal of the stance taken by attorneys general in the Obama administration, who had said they would not seek to imprison members of the news media who were doi...
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