Hawaii fires back at Jeff Sessions after he called the state 'an island in the Pacific Ocean'
Source: Business Insider
Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
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Hawaii lawmakers are firing back at US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who slammed a Hawaii federal judge who blocked the latest version of President Donald Trump's travel ban.
Sessions referred to Federal Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii, as "a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific" during an appearance on The Mark Levin Show, CNN reported on Thursday.
Sessions said the travel ban was "clearly" in Trump's "statutory and Constitutional power."
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"Our federal courts, established under article III of the Constitution, are co-equal partners with Congress and the President. It is disappointing AG Sessions does not acknowledge that," Chin's statement read.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-fires-back-at-jeff-sessions-2017-4
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)refusing to acknowledge Hawaii as a state. That was disturbing, and as the article stated:
Dog Whistle politics.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Anything related to Obama is pure evil according to republican dogma.
jrthin
(4,836 posts)Not so far as I can tell.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Enuff said.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)[center]
Motley13
(3,867 posts)life hell on earth.
You can say Alabama did one thing smart, they got rid of this asshole.
Hard to believe he had any dealings with Russians, he is so stupid, I'm sure he gave them a chuckle.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)last night she stated that Alabama is a Sessions family political dynasty. Mayors, state legislators, commissioners, judges, you name it. Everywhere. Inbred is right.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)He feels entitled to always win, regardless!
Sessions has no fucks to give about anyone but himself and his cronies.
Since Pearl and statehood, I doubt anyone has questioned Hawaii's place in our union.
It's obvious Sessions wouldn't understand what "Book'em Danno" means and never watched Magnum P.I.. That was when America met Hawaii in living color. This guy has to go!
Lock him up!
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)cubbies01
(85 posts)I think in some ways the most disturbing part of all this is that the US AG is making appearances on the Mark Levin show.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)after all, he LIED to a sitting member of the Senate
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Maybe they'll have something whipped up by then. These repukes certainly offer rich material!
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)and USA reporting that this "guy" and his family has over 250 million in properties up for sale, and how someone can pad these sales, without any knowledge of where these monies are coming from because of the LLC moniker behind the transactions hides on who they are--------I hope SNL has a bit on this , it maybe funny but it will be eye opening for a lot of people that are tracking SNL right now.
Tomorrow going to go and March for Science
benld74
(9,904 posts)nini
(16,672 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Girard442
(6,073 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)https://mediamatters.org/video/2008/08/10/cokie-roberts-on-obamas-vacation-i-know-his-gra/144326
yardwork
(61,619 posts)Aristus
(66,371 posts)Just as with his assessment of Hawaii, (an island in the Pacific) technically true, but missing all of the really important details.
I'm guessing Sessions just isn't a details boy...
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Caribou Barbie
Steven Maurer
(459 posts)And that makes it white. So, A-Ok in Sessons' book.
Mendocino
(7,492 posts)Good grief, the right sure has some dullards.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)they're......FOREIGNERS!
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)so many of them are, are... brown!
Guess that's why some people think New Mexico is another country; 38% white non-Hispanic.
Dammit Jim
(70 posts)I'm not a native, but the wife and I moved to the Aloha State when I retired a couple years back, and our neighbors are mad as flaming HELL about Sessions. Me too, though the insult doesn't cut as deeply.
George II
(67,782 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)dalton99a
(81,497 posts)Paladin
(28,261 posts)If Sessions can insult Hawaii by dismissing it as a mere "island in the Pacific," I can certainly feel free to claim Sessions is nothing more than an "Ugly Little Shrimp With A Law Degree."