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Jeff Sessions kicks off whirlwind week of Cabinet hearings

Sessions claims "Lock Her Up" was just a joke, and besides he can't recall if he was ever caught on tape saying it.
 
Maybe we'll find out in the next 4 years.

I suspect we will.

The next couple of elections might be even more interesting than the 2016 election was. Regardless of what happens, the hard core Trumpeteers will still support their hero.
 
He had no choice but to denounce them.

I would say that it goes beyond no choice. Sessions got the death penalty for a member of the Klan, but more importantly, here is a picture of Jeff Sessions attending a civil rights rally, and even holding hands with the leader of that rally.

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To be honest, the Liberals in this forum are bringing up very old news in order to discredit Sessions, and it is for political reasons only.
 
I would say that it goes beyond no choice. Sessions got the death penalty for a member of the Klan, but more importantly, here is a picture of Jeff Sessions attending a civil rights rally, and even holding hands with the leader of that rally.

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To be honest, the Liberals in this forum are bringing up very old news in order to discredit Sessions, and it is for political reasons only.

I really don't care about any of this Klan hooplah, tbh. I am just worried about how Sessions' gonna effect the future of marijuana legalization.
 
All of these protesters are not doing the left any favors, at this point all they do is make Trump more sympathetic.
 
I really don't care about any of this Klan hooplah, tbh. I am just worried about how Sessions' gonna effect the future of marijuana legalization.

Should the federal government enforce its own laws? Yes or no? Many liberals like yourself like to use selective reasoning here where you pick and choose which laws the government should enforce, but the fact is you can't be a nation of laws when you selectively decide what laws will be enforced.
 
I really don't care about any of this Klan hooplah, tbh. I am just worried about how Sessions' gonna effect the future of marijuana legalization.

I am more worried about how far he will go, or not go, to keep Trump in line re citizen freedom in general.

Make no mistake, Trump has unfortunate tendencies here.
 
There will be no obstruction. That's a pipe dream. The Democrats don't have the horse power to obstruct his appointment. Thanks Harry Reid.

All they have to do is get a few Republicans on board. It won't happen in THIS appointment no, but there are plenty of things ahead and if the GOP dump Obamacare sending 20 million to the no-insurance line you bet there will be consequences. Trump won by small margins in states, so all it takes is for him to over-estimate his "mandate".

Republicans should get ready to get the same support they gave Obama....None.
 
The Attorney General is supposed to serve the citizens of the USA by enforcing U.S. laws.

Ya, though that has happened very poorly during much of my lifetime. I dont have a lot of hope that Sessions will be better than par on that either.
 
I really don't care about any of this Klan hooplah, tbh. I am just worried about how Sessions' gonna effect the future of marijuana legalization.

Well, he's no longer a law maker, just an enforcer. Small potatoes anyway.
 
I really don't care about any of this Klan hooplah, tbh. I am just worried about how Sessions' gonna effect the future of marijuana legalization.

As AG, Sessions can't effect marijuana legalization.
 
I am listening to the Sessions confirmation hearings as I post this.

Based on what I have heard so far, I am OK with Sessions being Attorney General for the following reasons:

1) Yes, Sessions does have a racist past, but that was 40 years ago. But people change. My brothers and I were raised racists, but today I live in a black neighborhood, and one of my brothers is married to a black woman. Once more, people change. Sessions has prosecuted the KKK, and done other things to show me that he is not the same man he was 40 years ago. I am willing to give him a chance.

2) Sessions is a far right wing Conservative, but Trump was elected, and a president's appointments serve at his pleasure.

While I am strongly against Tillerson, for reasons given in another thread that I started, I don't see why Sessions shouldn't be confirmed. IMHO, he is capable, and his party did win the election, which means that Trump has the right to nominate the people he wants, and they should be confirmed by the Senate, barring any real legal or ethical issues. He may be against Roe v. Wade, and other laws of the land, but he said today that his job is not to make the law, but to enforce existing law, and that is what he would do. I will take his word on that. Until he commits an action which speaks otherwise, I am OK with his selection.

Jeff Sessions kicks off whirlwind week of Cabinet hearings | Boston Herald

From what little I heard, Sessions held his own today and the dems tried their hardest to make a mountain out of a molehill. They couldn't slip him up, even when they did. if he's a closet racist, he sure is doing a great job hiding it, because the Dems say he has to condemn the KKK and now they are mad because he did condemn them once again. Apparently, that shouldn't be a question to be asked, but they were the ones who initiated such questioning.

He gave good answers to the abortion and gay issue too. I wonder why liberals weren't this persistent with Trump during the debate.
 
I really don't care about any of this Klan hooplah, tbh. I am just worried about how Sessions' gonna effect the future of marijuana legalization.

I would have thought you would be more concerned with LGBT issues.
 
All they have to do is get a few Republicans on board. It won't happen in THIS appointment no, but there are plenty of things ahead and if the GOP dump Obamacare sending 20 million to the no-insurance line you bet there will be consequences. Trump won by small margins in states, so all it takes is for him to over-estimate his "mandate".

Republicans should get ready to get the same support they gave Obama....None.

You must have some kind of memory loss, McConnell gave Obama everything he would have had with Harry Reid in charge of Congress. He could not have hoped for more.
 
You must have some kind of memory loss, McConnell gave Obama everything he would have had with Harry Reid in charge of Congress. He could not have hoped for more.

If they gave everything Obama wanted, Obama's picks would not have been obstructed like they were.
 
You must have some kind of memory loss, McConnell gave Obama everything he would have had with Harry Reid in charge of Congress. He could not have hoped for more.

Actually, Republicans used the filibuster in the Senate more than all other congresses, dating back to the first congress, combined.
 
If they gave everything Obama wanted, Obama's picks would not have been obstructed like they were.

His cabinet picks pretty much breezed through, no matter how horrible. They gave him huge leeway.
 
Actually, Republicans used the filibuster in the Senate more than all other congresses, dating back to the first congress, combined.

The Democrats used the "Nuclear Option", as they called it, to get his judges through without obstruction.
 
His cabinet picks pretty much breezed through, no matter how horrible. They gave him huge leeway.

Really, so Obama's SCOTUS picked got through? Wow that's news to me. Care to try again?
 
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