Stop The Jeff Sessions Nomination

[cristinew]

Donald Trump has picked Jeff Sessions to be the next Attorney General. It really couldn’t get any worse. Jeff Sessions is a drug war extremist who has supported policies with racist impacts. He will bring back militarized, Reagan-era drug war tactics and raids on marijuana businesses.

This week the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings on Sessions and we need to fight back. Send a message to your Senators telling them to oppose Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. 

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[bax]

chris christie would be the same.

Edited January 10, 2017 by bax

[Restorium2]

christie would be the same.

Maybe. But Christie would have less of a chance to be nominated. Sessions has been working with the law makers that will affirm him for a long time, they are cronies now. Even some moderate D's will not fight Sessions. Might as well say he is in. That's how I see it after some serious research. 

[+washtenaut]

Watching NOW the Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing in the senate on CNN

[Restorium2]

Just watched Leahy ask Sessions about federal medical marijuana policy.

 

Sessions said he would pick and choose which cases to investigate and prosecute even in legal states. 

[cristinew]

Sessions also just said If the cannabis laws are bad have congress change them//  Well lets see how many democrats submit bills in congress to change the law,

[Restorium2]

Further;

Sessions; If Congress didn't want marijuana offenders to be prosecuted because of federal law then they should change it. It's illegal because congress made the law.  

 

 

Which infers that a state law doesn't matter and he wants to enforce federal laws when it comes to marijuana. Just like he has always said. 

[cristinew]

the best way to change a bad law  is to enforce it,.?

[Restorium2]

Best change it because he's going to enforce it. He's not thinking 'good or bad'. He just wants some law and order. 

[cristinew]

Yes its time for the democrats to submit a bill to change the cannabis law.  They have nothing to lose and much to gain if they did. It is  time for the democratic party to gets some guts.

Edited January 10, 2017 by cristinew

[bax]

the bills to protect medical marijuana are already written and submitted in both the house and senate. its the carers act.

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/683

[bax]

Just watched Leahy ask Sessions about federal medical marijuana policy.

 

Sessions said he would pick and choose which cases to investigate and prosecute even in legal states.

which is exactly what eric holder and loretta lynch have done.

 

just read https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-702_9p6b.pdf

 

wherein holder wanted to prosecute a jamaican man in the state of georgia for having 1.3 grams of marijuana into a 4 year felony.

[cristinew]

the bills to protect medical marijuana are already written and submitted in both the house and senate. its the carers act.

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/683

And we see none of our Michigan senators  have signed onto this. Where is Peters and Stabbanaw 

[Restorium2]

which is exactly what eric holder and loretta lynch have done.

 

just read https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-702_9p6b.pdf

 

wherein holder wanted to prosecute a jamaican man in the state of georgia for having 1.3 grams of marijuana into a 4 year felony.

Sessions was talking specifically about legal states and medical marijuana. Big difference. 

 

He also mentioned that he understands the funding problem.

 

California hired Holder to fight Sessions on the marijuana issue, among other state's rights issues. 

Edited January 10, 2017 by Restorium2

[bax]

i can tell you right now that eric holder is going to lose, just like he lost in that supreme court case lol. he a bad lawyer in my opinion.

Edited January 10, 2017 by bax

[bax]

And we see none of our Michigan senators  have signed onto this. Where is Peters and Stabbanaw

that carers bill is dead anyway. but yeah please contact stab and peters and any other reps/senators you can think of.

[william7]

I thought what was said in What Jeff Sessions Said About Marijuana in His Attorney General Hearing to be very interesting.

 

During the first day of his confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions did not provide much in the way of a definitive plan for how he would direct the Justice Department to treat states' legalization of a drug that is very much illegal under federal law. Sessions, who in the past has been outspokenly opposed to legalized marijuana, admitted during questioning by his fellow U.S. senators that disrupting states' legal marijuana markets by enforcing federal marijuana laws could create an undue strain on federal resources.

 

 

[bax]

thats exactly what a snake in the grass would say.

 

right before his donkey bites you.

[sfalken]

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Edited February 10, 2017 by sfalken

[+washtenaut]

Watching Sessions confirmation hearings on cspan2.  They just had a guy from the Fraternal Order of Police (Chuck Canterbury). 

 

He said, (roughly) 'Without Senator Sessions, the asset forfeiture program may have been dismantled'  

 

Yet another reason to not favor Sessions, though I am resigned to the fact that he will be confirmed.

[Restorium2]

I watched it all live and Sessions is the closest thing I've ever seen to a real live Boogy Man. Practically a 'made for TV' villain, but real. He embodies everything bad in a prosecutor with nothing good to balance that out. Like a broken scale of justice. Like a Hannibal Lector with the chains and muzzle removed ready to have his victims. 

[Restorium2]

Also, he will have an ax to grind with 'yankees' just like ever other hate driven politician from Alabama. 

[dutchfarm]

I grew up in the south( and have a lot of relatives there too) and I can tell you without a doubt there are many people there that still spout hatred for Yankees, in private circles, many still believe Dixie will rise again, geesh, how many years ago was that? Just grow up!!

Farmer BRown

[sfalken]

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Edited February 10, 2017 by sfalken

[Restorium2]

 

Nobody knows the future, but we can draw some conclusions based upon Session's past. What we don't know, is whether there will be a Trump factor. Will he intervene? Or will he punish blue states that didn't fall to him by just letting the AG have his way with them? You decide. The most childish action is the best bet.

 

It may also very well be that this is a subject Trump is only remotely aware of. One that while he goes around the country re-living the election year, basking in his own glow - he lets fall to those he has appointed for the next 4yrs. Same result.

 

He's a CEO. CEOs dont do real work. Everyone else does the heavy lifting while CEOs sit in offices and play with pencils.

 

Always thought Bush did that. Now we are a red state.