Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to visit Michigan on Thursday to give a speech at the annual dinner of the state's chapter of the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal group known for promoting late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's brand of constitutional originalism.
The talk will be held in Plymouth, outside Detroit, where Sessions' Justice Department is hoping to have a gang member executed as part of a ramp-up in the federal government's use of the death penalty. Under the Obama administration, death-penalty authorizations were sought only in cases involving terrorism, the killing of children or law-enforcement officers, and murders by prisoners already serving life sentences.…