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Jeff Sessions kicks off whirlwind week of Cabinet hearings

Praxas said:
Really, so Obama's SCOTUS picked got through? Wow that's news to me. Care to try again?
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Sondra Sotomayer was appointed. So was Elana Kagan.
 
apdst said:
The AG cannot make law; only enforce existing law. If the AG can effect the, "legal", marijuana market by enforcing existing law, then, "legal", marijuana wasn't legal to begin with.
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I already understand that. It's still illegal at the federal level.
 
Ikari said:
Yeah cause that's a good use of time and money.
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Enforcing the law is the AG's sole purpose for existance. Don't like the law? Change it appropriately.
 
TheGoverness said:
I already understand that. It's still illegal at the federal level.
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Then it looks like the state legalizations are constitutionally illegal and are classic cases of pooch-porking.

Ya see, we have a system for a reason. When you get your way, by circumventing that system, you have to prepare yourself for the day when the laws that were skirted are enforced. Don't like the law? Change it in accordance with The Constitution.
 
apdst said:
Then it looks like the state legalizations are constitutionally illegal and are classic cases of pooch-porking.

Ya see, we have a system for a reason. When you get your way, by circumventing that system, you have to prepare yourself for the day when the laws that were skirted are enforced. Don't like the law? Change it in accordance with The Constitution.
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The law should be changed. Trump should most defintley try to go after those federal laws during his Presidency, but I doubt that will happen.
 
TheGoverness said:
The law should be changed. Trump should most defintley try to go after those federal laws during his Presidency, but I doubt that will happen.
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The President can't change law. The Constitution only gives that power to Congress.

There's a serious civics lesson in order here.
 
apdst said:
The President can't change law. The Constitution only gives that power to Congress.

There's a serious civics lesson in order here.
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I never said the President could change the law.

I said Trump should 'go after' those federal laws, 'go after' meaning he could start some kind of movement within Congress to get those federal laws repealed.
 
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TheGoverness said:
Is Jeff Sessions anti-LGBT? I don't know if he is or not.
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Here's what he said on it today.

Sessions on protecting women & LGBTQ: “I am not sure women or people with different sexual orientations face that kind of discrimination.”
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His voting record on LGBT issues is abysmal at best.
 
TheGoverness said:
I never said the President could change the law.

I said Trump should 'go after' those federal laws, 'go after' meaning he could start some kind of movement within Congress to get those federal laws repealed.
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"Go after", how? What does that even mean?

You know there's no way that ANY congress critter is going to legalize marijuana, right? Certainly not any Democrat.
 
azgreg said:
Here's what he said on it today.



His voting record on LGBT issues is abysmal at best.
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How many times did Sessions have the oppurtunity to vote on gay rights?
 
apdst said:
"Go after", how? What does that even mean?
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I literally just explained it in my previous post.

And I never said it was likely to happen either.
 
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danarhea said:
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
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I watched the hearing this morning and was quite favorably impressed with Sessions. He answered every question from both sides of the aisle appropriately, without hesitation, and I detected no hedging or manipulation or lack of conviction. I don't think there is any guile in the man.

There is nobody who isn't going to have some opinions and point of view that is contrary to what somebody else believes or considers right. So their personal position on most things is far less important to me than how they view the existing law and their respect for it. I want judges and SCOTUS justices who respect the Constitution and existing law and base their rulings on that and not on their personal axes to grind. I want the same from all others in government--if it is a bad law, then change it. Otherwise you follow the law. Sessions seems to agree with that.

He should be confirmed unanimously.
 
azgreg said:
Here's what he said on it today.



His voting record on LGBT issues is abysmal at best.
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NO, that is not what he said today. He was quoted as saying it in 2009, eight years ago.
 
NonoBadDog said:
Sessions was instrumental in the swift execution of a Klansman in Alabama.

In Alabama, Jeff Sessions Desegregated Schools and Got the Death Penalty for KKK Murderer (Updated) | The Weekly Standard

He also helped get a 7 million dollar fine against the KKK. I think his opponents are blowing thigns out of proportion but it won't matter. They don't have the votes to stop it.
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So what you are saying is African Americans will be just fine with Sessions as the AG as long as they aren't caught with a joint. :shock:
 
 
Ikari said:
Yeah cause that's a good use of time and money.
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So you believe in the government deciding what laws they will enforce?
 
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