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catbyte

(34,402 posts)
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 03:57 PM Apr 2017

Sessions is utterly unfit to be Attorney General. Now he's attacking a sitting federal judge.

AG Sessions: 9th circuit judge on ‘island in the Pacific’ shouldn’t be able to overrule Trump orders

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, chief lawyer of the United States government, continued the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on the judicial branch, insisting he’s “amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific” has the Constitutional authority to block Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Sessions was referring to a federal judge in Hawaii, who last month issued a nationwide restraining order against Trump’s immigration ban, which blocked travel from six countries and indefinitely suspended the admission of Syrian refugees.

“We’ve got cases moving in the very, very liberal Ninth Circuit, who, they’ve been hostile to the order,” AG Sessions said, according to CNN’s KFILE. “We won a case in Virginia recently that was a nicely-written order that just demolished, I thought, all the arguments that some of the other people have been making.”

“We are confident that the President will prevail on appeal and particularly in the Supreme Court, if not the Ninth Circuit,” he continued. “So this is a huge matter. I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power.”

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What a goddamned embarrassment and utter disgrace.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/ag-sessions-9th-circuit-judge-on-island-in-the-pacific-shouldnt-be-able-to-overrule-trump-orders/?comments=disqus
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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
1. Nation's Highest Ranking Perjurer is his new title.
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:01 PM
Apr 2017

That "judge sitting on an island in the Pacific" or anywhere else needs to rule that perjury is still a crime.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. History will not treat these criminal assclowns kindly.
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:09 PM
Apr 2017

And I hope likewise from their prison guards.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
3. I'm amazed that some Jackhole from the sticks of Alabama thinks he can tell 34 Million Californians
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:08 PM
Apr 2017

they can't vote to legally smoke pot.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
5. Words can't accurately express how much I hate these fucking assholes.
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:10 PM
Apr 2017

There is not a single decent person among them. They're all horrible, and Sessions is no exception! The sooner we lock this whole fucking administration behind bars the better.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
6. How can he be a lawyer and be amazed at that?
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:10 PM
Apr 2017

How did he pass the bar exam?

And why is he calling a state "an island in the Pacific?"

catbyte

(34,402 posts)
10. It seems like they're still trying to de-legitimize President Obama's tenure by dissing
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:18 PM
Apr 2017

Hawaii now. It's pathological.

padfun

(1,786 posts)
7. These Deplorables just dont understand our Government
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 04:12 PM
Apr 2017

Nor the Constitution, nor what laws mean (They think that laws don't apply to them).

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