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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:26 PM Apr 2017

Keebler Elf: Hawaii's "fabulous," wasn't "criticizing the judge or the island"...#MAGA! #BuyIvanka!



(CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday he was not disrespecting Hawaii or a judge in the state when he said he was "amazed" that the official was able to block President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban halting immigration from several majority Muslim countries.

"I wasn't criticizing the judge or the island," he told CNN's Kate Bolduan on "At This Hour." "I think it's a fabulous place and had a granddaughter born there."

"But I got to tell you -- it's a point worth making that a single sitting judge out of 600, 700 district judges can issue an order stopping a presidential executive order that I believe is fully constitutional, designed to protect the United States of America from terrorist attacks."

He added, "I was just raising the point of that issue of a single judge taking such a dramatic action and the impact it can have."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/politics/jeff-sessions-hawaii-comment-cnntv/index.html
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Keebler Elf: Hawaii's "fabulous," wasn't "criticizing the judge or the island"...#MAGA! #BuyIvanka! (Original Post) Miles Archer Apr 2017 OP
As the Attorney General of the United States, he ought to know better The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2017 #1
he again referred to it as an island instead of as a state. geek tragedy Apr 2017 #2
That island is just fabulous I tells ya! MoonRiver Apr 2017 #3
Lots of my best friends visit Hawai'i! I even had a grand daughter born there! stopbush Apr 2017 #8
Lol, so that's the problem with our 50th state, er, island! MoonRiver Apr 2017 #10
A single SCOTUS judge made all the difference last night in decision to execute a man last night. Justice Apr 2017 #4
Yes, our system is set up so that ONE PERSON (a judge) stopbush Apr 2017 #5
Oops BainsBane Apr 2017 #6
Now I can't unsee it RockaFowler Apr 2017 #7
His face screams ... GeorgeGist Apr 2017 #9
What an asshat angrychair Apr 2017 #11

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,704 posts)
1. As the Attorney General of the United States, he ought to know better
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:31 PM
Apr 2017

than to say something as stupid as "I was just raising the point of that issue of a single judge taking such a dramatic action and the impact it can have." That's what federal judges do. It's their job, and it's how the law works. The reason one judge in one federal district can make a decision about a particular law that affects all of the districts is so the law isn't applied or interpreted in a piecemeal way throughout the country. If you don't like the decision you appeal it. Dumbass.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
2. he again referred to it as an island instead of as a state.
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:33 PM
Apr 2017

Note: Most Hawaiians do not live on the island of Hawaii, they live on Oahu.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
8. Lots of my best friends visit Hawai'i! I even had a grand daughter born there!
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:40 PM
Apr 2017

Do you know how difficult it is to find a KKK meeting in Hawai'i to get your grand daughter christened?

Justice

(7,188 posts)
4. A single SCOTUS judge made all the difference last night in decision to execute a man last night.
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:38 PM
Apr 2017

So yeah, a single judge can have a big impact.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
5. Yes, our system is set up so that ONE PERSON (a judge)
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 12:39 PM
Apr 2017

can block an executive order issued by ONE PERSON (the president).

I see no problem. Do you?

angrychair

(8,699 posts)
11. What an asshat
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 01:04 PM
Apr 2017

To have the sitting AG say something so stunningly ignorant is embarrassing.

Either that or he continues to troll us as if no one outside of trumpland knows that our legal system is actually structured to work the way it did.

Jeff is every inept and should surrender his law license or a liar and a troll and embarrassing his supposed profession.

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