Jeff Sessions hires attorney who defended Christian school that banned interracial dating

[Miles Archer]

Jeff Sessions hires attorney who defended Christian school that banned interracial dating



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/jeff-sessions-hires-attorney-who-defended-christian-school-that-banned-interracial-dating/

Another Trump Administration official has hired private legal counsel as multiple investigations continue into potential Trump campaign collusion with Russia as well as alleged obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump himself.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has retained Charles Cooper, according to a new report.

Chuck Cooper has been criticized for condoning discrimination during his long legal career, from support for Bob Jones’ University’s ban on interracial dating to supporting job discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS. Most recently, Cooper had a prominent role pushing legal discrimination against the LGBTQ community during the legal battles over Proposition 8 and marriage equality.

Cooper was on the short list to be Solicitor General, but withdrew his name from consideration, citing Sessions.

“After witnessing the treatment that my friend Jeff Sessions, a decent and honorable man who bears only good will and good cheer to everyone he meets, had to endure at the hands of a partisan opposition that will say anything and do anything to advance their political interests, I am unwilling to subject myself, my family, and my friends to such a process,” Cooper wrote in a statement.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Fascists of a feather flock together.

[Matthew28]

2. Fascist and haters of freedom all these disgusting republicans

. remove them all office.

[ehrnst]

3. Ah can't seem to recall hiring any lawyah just now.

And ah can't seem to remembah if ahm supposed to remembah that at this particulah junctuah in tahm....

[gratuitous]

4. "Jeff Sessions, a decent and honorable man"

I thought the AG was going to crack down on recreational cannabis.

[Miles Archer]

9. He's cracking down on MEDICAL cannabis

He wants to enforce federal laws on ALL cannabis.

Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical-marijuana providers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/13/jeff-sessions-personally-asked-congress-to-let-him-prosecute-medical-marijuana-providers/

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical-marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday.

The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent certain states "from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana."

In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act." He continues:

I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime. The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.

[Dustlawyer]

10. "...who bears only good will and good cheer to everyone he meets." Except minorities,

immigrants, gay and transgendered, the poor....

[Sunlei]

5. They need to Lawyer-up. Their glorious job benefits cover the costs anyway.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Well of course he did! nt

[Egnever]

13. Right?

No surprise here.

[Solly Mack]

7. Of course. Would he hire any other type of person?

“After witnessing the treatment that my friend Jeff Sessions, a decent and honorable man who bears only good will and good cheer to everyone he meets, had to endure at the hands of a partisan opposition that will say anything and do anything to advance their political interests, I am unwilling to subject myself, my family, and my friends to such a process,” Cooper wrote in a statement.

Yeah, right. He didn't want to his hate to be on widespread public display.

[barbtries]

8. " bears only good will and good cheer to everyone he meets, "

BULLSHIT. He'd see my loved ones in prison as soon as spit on him. sessions is a bad seed.

[lpbk2713]

11. He gets a Klan member discount.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Miserable racist pieces of shite!

How are people like this even tolerated in this day and age?

[SCVDem]

14. Marijuana bad!

Guns good!

Republicans brain dead!