Sen. Ron Wyden Ronald (Ron) Lee WydenGOP senator blocks Schumer resolution aimed at Biden probe as tensions run high Republican Senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal Hillicon Valley: TikTok, Oracle seek Trump's approval as clock winds down | Hackers arrested for allegedly defacing U.S. websites after death of Iranian general | 400K people register to vote on Snapchat MORE (D-Ore.) is calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE to release the recommendations he's received from President Trump's task force on violent crime.

The Democratic senator said in a letter to Sessions on Tuesday that the American people have a right to know the basis for enforcement policy changes made by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Wyden noted a memo Sessions sent to the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and DOJ officials in April explaining that task force subcommittees were instructed to review department policies on marijuana, asset forfeiture, hate crimes, immigration enforcement and human trafficking, and make initial recommendations no later than July 27.

Sessions said in a statement last week he has been getting recommendations from the task force on a "rolling basis" and has already been implementing them, but did not provide details on what those recommendations have been. Trump directed Sessions to establish the task force earlier this year.

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Sessions's statement last week came days after he re-established a controversial criminal asset seizure program.

“Already DOJ has made sweeping changes in its treatment of civil asset forfeiture, sanctuary cities and for-profit prisons,” Wyden wrote in his letter to Sessions.

“Yet, Americans remain in the dark about the content of the task force’s recommendations and which of your actions as attorney general are being based on these recommendations.”

Wyden said he’s particularly concerned with the about the secrecy shrouding the recommendations provided by the marijuana subcommittee given Sessions’s past statements opposing state-level legalized marijuana laws.

“The public deserves to know whether recommendations from the marijuana subcommittee are being used behind the scenes at DOJ to justify federal actions that undermine states’ rights to set their own marijuana laws,” he said.

Wyden went on to ask Sessions what DOJ’s justification is for not releasing the task force recommendations, when and from which subcommittee he’s received recommendations and what he's done in terms of implementation.