I have talked about Jeff Sessions before and the fact that I felt he was an inappropriate candidate for Attorney General, not only because I believe him to be a huge racist but also because he perjured himself during his confirmation hearing. You can read more about that in this Ms Momocracy post.
Well during an interview with conservative talk host Mark Levin, good old’ Jeff had this to say about the court system shutting down Trump “Muslim Ban”:
“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,” Mr. Sessions said this week in an interview on “The Mark Levin Show,” a conservative talk radio program.
Sally Yates, acting Attorney General back in January, publicly declared she would not defend the immigration law stating she did not believe it was lawful and she eventually lost her job for standing up to Trump. A three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit also agreed with Yates back in February and put a stop to the original ban. This resulted in Trump and his cronies releasing a new “travel ban” that according to Trump, Stepford Stephen Miller and his inner circle was identical and basically a recycled version of the original ban. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson from Hawaii declared the second ban illegal, using Trump and his cronies own words as rationale for the illegality of the immigration ban.
Sessions sides with Don the Con, and sees no problem with a Muslim Ban or a ban that targets cultures or religions. Shocker…
Sessions seems to believe the Hawaiian judge did not have the right to put a stop to the travel ban—that a judge sitting on that “little Pacific island” should not be able to stop the President from doing something illegal—and for that Jeff Sessions’ you are Ms Momocracy’s D-Bag of the Day!
Resources:
Jeff Sessions Dismisses Hawaii as ‘an Island in the Pacific’, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/politics/jeff-sessions-judge-hawaii-pacific-island.html?_r=0
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Tells Justice Department Not to Defend President Trump’s Immigration Ban, http://time.com/4654533/acting-attorney-general-sally-yates-immigration-ban-donald-trump/
6 Highlights From the Ruling on Trump’s Immigration Order, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/trump-travel-ban-ninth-circuit-ruling.html
Hawaii’s Trump travel ban ruling (full text), http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/politics/hawaii-travel-ban-ruling-full-text/