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Let slip the cries of racism!

I hope so. If these leftists haven’t learned by the results of the last election that they won’t get allies by calling everyone who disagrees a racist, bigot, homophobe, xenophobe, islamophobe then let them suffer. Calling people names neither makes your point not changes their minds.

Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 11/18/2016 @ 8:42 am

My goodness,
I recall the racism chant by Schumer and company at Pickering,
even with Medgar Evers’ brother vouching for him.

they will make up anything if they can’t find something.

MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/18/2016 @ 9:03 am

Sounds good to me. Need a border hawk in the position to enforce existing law.

NJRob (a07d2e) — 11/18/2016 @ 9:07 am

I’m pretty sure Jeff Sessions has a race or two. That means he’s racist, right?

CayleyGraph (cab462) — 11/18/2016 @ 9:18 am

He will certainly be labeled a racial bigot when he fires all the racial bigots that holder & lynch brought in.

joe (debac0) — 11/18/2016 @ 9:23 am

Let slip the cries of racism!

Pretty sure we’re supposed to cry havoc first.

JVW (6e49ce) — 11/18/2016 @ 9:49 am

Today is a good day.

ThOR (c9324e) — 11/18/2016 @ 10:16 am

NJRob (a07d2e) — 11/18/2016 @ 9:07 am

Need a border hawk in the position to enforce existing law. </blockquote. That's now under Homeland Security.

Sammy Finkelman (83cfe1) — 11/18/2016 @ 10:17 am

A good day indeed!

Colonel Haiku (61bdd9) — 11/18/2016 @ 10:39 am

That’s now under Homeland Security.
Sammy Finkelman (83cfe1) — 11/18/2016 @ 10:17 am

Except that the AG is the one who enforces the law and declines to do the same.

That’s why so many illegals get to go free under this current criminal administration.

NJRob (a07d2e) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:05 am

Call me underwhelmed. The 69 year old Sessions is not the sharpest knife in the drawer by a long shot. Nor does his slightly less than two years service as Alabama’s AG give him much in the way of experience for the job of draining the political swamp that has become the Department of Justice. Loading the career bureaucracy with people with political agendas began in earnest under Clinton an went into overdrive under Obama. Optics matter when the targets have a sympathetic media on their side. Mush mouth Jeff, with his occasionally close to undecipherable drawl, would be way down my list.

NC Mountain Girl (8192dc) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:17 am

10. Sammy Finkelman (83cfe1) — 11/18/2016 @ 10:17 am

That’s now under Homeland Security.

NJRob (a07d2e) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:05 am

Except that the AG is the one who enforces the law and declines to do the same.

They can make prosecutions, but they don’t do much of that except when they want to make a show and it’s arbitrary. They got a lot of illegal people to plead guilty in one kabuki thing they did. Anybody who did becomesa a priority for deportation. Otherwise it’s all under Homeland Security.

That’s why so many illegals get to go free under this current criminal administration.

No. The INS used to be part of DOJ, but ICE, and everything it does, is part of Homeland Security.

The FBI is under DOJ but has virtually nothing to do with immigration. ATF, though, although it was moved out of from Treasury as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, went to Justice, and not to Homeland Security.

Sammy Finkelman (be1929) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:34 am

He could have picked Loretta Lynch and the NY Times would have found problems.

Too bad about Sessions, though, I would rather have seen him as Senate Majority Leader.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:38 am

By the way, is anyone who wants all laws enforced disturbed over DOJ tolerance of state marijuana laws?

Now that’s something Sessions could get involved in (but probably won’t.) Maybe Congress actually will legalize the status quo. The Democrats weren’t interested in that enough.

It does cause problemms. Anybody using marijuana under state law is not legally allowed to purchse (or own I think) a gun if they answer the form truthfully.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/legal-marijuana-poses-a-problem-for-gun-buyers-1479154520

Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s husband and sons ordered her a new Benelli 12-gauge shotgun as a gift, but when the Alaska Republican—and enthusiastic duck hunter—went to pick it up, she was puzzled by a question on the federal background form she had to fill out.

The form asked if she used marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes, both of which are legal in Alaska. If she answered yes, she would be unable to get the gun, because federal law prohibits anyone who uses illegal drugs from buying a firearm.

The senator doesn’t use pot, but she was taken aback by the notion that an activity that is legal in her state could block gun ownership. “I don’t like marijuana—I voted against legalization—but we passed it,” she said in an interview. “Now, you’ve got this conflict.”

The scope of that conflict just grew, as voters in eight states last week approved marijuana-related ballot initiatives. Now, 29 states and Washington, D.C., allow marijuana use in some form, including eight that allow recreational use. Yet federal law still holds that anyone who uses marijuana, even medicinally, is doing so illegally and can’t buy a gun.

That is upsetting advocates for both gun owners and pot smokers, groups that don’t always find themselves on the same side of the cultural divide.

“This idea that you somehow waive your Second Amendment rights if you smoke marijuana” is wrong, said Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, which advocates marijuana legalization. “In particular, if you are using marijuana as a medicine, the idea that you have to choose between your health and the Second Amendment is offensive.”

“The Gun Control Act prohibitions are governed by the Controlled Substances Act, and marijuana remains an illegal, controlled substance under federal law,” said Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr.

Justice oversees the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which regulates licensed gun dealers; as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which runs background checks; and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which classifies drugs.

The marijuana-gun issue is one of the stranger outcomes of an unusual conflict between state laws, which increasingly allow marijuana use, and federal law, which continues to view pot-smoking as a crime.

At issue are the applications that would-be gun buyers must fill out when they visit licensed firearms dealers. Question 11(e) on ATF Form 4473 asks whether the purchaser is an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana.

The legal, recreational use of marijuana passed in four states on Tuesday with another three states passing it for medicinal use.

Under ATF guidance distributed to gun dealers, anyone who answers affirmatively can’t buy a firearm. If a dealer has reason to believe the would-be gun purchaser is a marijuana user, the ATF says it is the dealer’s responsibility to halt the sale of a firearm or ammunition.

“There are no exceptions in federal law for marijuana purportedly used for medicinal purposes, even if such use is sanctioned by State law,” the guidance says.

The issue can be tricky, especially for those who oppose drug use but support gun rights. Perhaps for that reason, gun-rights groups have been relatively quiet on the issue. The National Rifle Association, for example, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Officials at Gun Owners of America highlight the medicinal-marijuana issue. “GOA finds it very troubling that the Obama administration would use medical issues to ban law-abiding Americans from owning firearms,” said the group’s executive director, Erich Pratt.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled recently that banning gun sales to medical marijuana users doesn’t violate their Second Amendment rights. Marijuana is a Schedule 1 controlled substance under federal law, the court noted, meaning it has “no currently accepted medical use in treatment.” The DEA reaffirmed that status just last August….

…Marijuana advocates say legal users of the drug are discriminated against in other ways as well, from child custody and banking to student loans and public housing.

“Even if you’re a progressive who doesn’t like guns or a libertarian who doesn’t like public housing, you should still be outraged by the discrimination that people who use marijuana face,” said Tom Angell, founder of Marijuana Majority, which supports legalization.

Sammy Finkelman (be1929) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:39 am

I think he could get bogged down into some non-immigration squirrels. Putting Paul Babeu at DHS (please, D. Clarke at best is either Capitol Police Chief or head of Park/Forest Rangers) might be a way of telling Jeff dont get ideas about avenging Kim Davis.

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:43 am

Best CNN banner of the day: “SOON: TRUMP DEPARTS FOR NEW JERSEY.”

Later tonight: “Trump leaves sofa; expected in bathroom shortly.”

DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/18/2016 @ 12:13 pm

I don’t seem to remember all this coverage of previous transitions. Trump seems to attract media like flies to … well, like files.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 11/18/2016 @ 12:52 pm

Kevin @17. That’s true. Or at least, if there was coverage, and if you looked deep enough in New York Tmes or paid aenough attention to thie news, you would find it, it didn’t make headlines so much.

It’s the political concern about him that’s doing this.

Nixon announced his Cabinet all at once, on about December 1, 1968. He said they all had “an extra dimension” I still remember that.

Sammy Finkelman (be1929) — 11/18/2016 @ 1:13 pm

“Call me underwhelmed. The 69 year old Sessions is not the sharpest knife in the drawer by a long shot… Mush mouth Jeff, with his occasionally close to undecipherable drawl, would be way down my list.”

NC Mountain Girl (8192dc) — 11/18/2016 @ 11:17 am

Set in idyllic Mayberry, North Carolina… https://youtu.be/jSpBwt4hFN8

Colonel Haiku (61bdd9) — 11/18/2016 @ 1:27 pm

Thats just the thing, a true southerner would never be allowed to win the nomination, thus Trump became the vessel for that to happen.

urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 11/18/2016 @ 1:39 pm

Well they dialed to eleventh over ashcroft, who was a Yale law educated evangelical, and they played confederate card against him.

narciso (d1f714) — 11/18/2016 @ 2:30 pm

Very good, Colonel.

ThOR (c9324e) — 11/18/2016 @ 2:36 pm

My positronic brain makes these connections, nothing is new except the level of mind arson.

narciso (d1f714) — 11/18/2016 @ 2:36 pm

NC Mountain Girl,

Whom do you prefer as AG; Sessions or Loretta Lynch?

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 11/18/2016 @ 2:40 pm

OMG. Watch Pompeo grilling Hillary during the House Benghazi hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KTDvFxok9A

elissa (ead691) — 11/18/2016 @ 3:02 pm

If someone had told you two years ago (right after the 2014 election) that the winner of the 2016 presidential election would appoint Jeff Sessions Attorney General, would you be pleased?

DN (21cace) — 11/18/2016 @ 4:15 pm

it just so happens,

https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/11/18/crying-wolf-on-race-top-jeff-sessions-critic-gerry-hebert-has-history-of-making-it-up/

narciso (d1f714) — 11/18/2016 @ 4:19 pm

Nixon announced his Cabinet all at once, on about December 1, 1968. He said they all had “an extra dimension” I still remember that.

SoS William P. Rogers was essentially a figurehead in that bunch, too. The Big Dick and ‘Superkraut’ (as a book from the era aptly labeled HK) essentially shaped and ran foreign policy from the Oval. Expecting a similar set up by Trump.

Romney is embarrassing himself as cheaply as Tedtoo and will never even be offered the state gig let alone work for someone like Trump. But humiliating the Mormon has to be a trip for the Presbyterian President-elect.

“Ma! He’s makin’ eyes at me…” – Eddie Cantor

DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/18/2016 @ 4:29 pm

ah Kissinger in retrospect, I wasn’t that impressed by, chile was a good move, the china embrace, also gave us the Khmer rouge, and nk can speak of the athenean matter, east timor was probably one step too far,

narciso (d1f714) — 11/18/2016 @ 4:37 pm

@29- “Vee believe dat peece iz dat hand.” ‘Nuff said.

DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/18/2016 @ 4:45 pm

and yet he didn’t continue to put pressure on the nva, but Watergate probably had a little to do with it,

narciso (d1f714) — 11/18/2016 @ 5:01 pm

Not that it was much of a psychic prediction, but Politico is piggy-backing on my prediction that there was about to be a mass exodus from DOJ’s Civil Rights Division over the AG nominee.

shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 11/18/2016 @ 10:28 pm

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AG Pick: Jeff Sessions

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