Hawaii fires back at Jeff Sessions after he called the state 'an island in the Pacific Ocean'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Business Insider



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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."

. . .

"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]

1. When I read what he said, I felt like he was

refusing to acknowledge Hawaii as a state. That was disturbing, and as the article stated:

Dog Whistle politics.

[Kablooie]

17. Well Obama grew up there so of course the US should sever relations with it.

Anything related to Obama is pure evil according to republican dogma.

[jrthin]

2. Is there a sane, capable person in this WH? nt

[3catwoman3]

3. No.

Not so far as I can tell.

[roamer65]

4. He's an inbred piece of shit.

Enuff said.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Nothing else seems to cover it.

[center]

[Motley13]

27. bet the racist can't play a banjo, so is there anything he can do besides making everyone's

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]

24. I am taking a class from a faculty member raised in Alabama. Now retired. Just

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]

6. What an arrogant ass!

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]

7. He can't acknowledge what he is unable to understand. eom

[cubbies01]

8. Levin

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]

14. That puts him in the certifiable range. Jeez. Welcome to D.U., cubbies01.

[turbinetree]

9. Maybe Mr. Sessions should be worried about TREASON

after all, he LIED to a sitting member of the Senate

[CTyankee]

21. Another SNL routine with Kate McKinnon as Sessions!

Maybe they'll have something whipped up by then. These repukes certainly offer rich material!

[turbinetree]

29. After seeing what Maddow said tonight about the properties

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]

10. Sessions is a bad case of Little Man Syndrome

[nini]

11. Well Obama was born there so it's another country - remember?

[Doreen]

12. I was thinking that myself.

[Girard442]

18. Onionesque headline: "New Evidence Barack Obama born on an Island in the Pacific!"

[Doreen]

23. OMG!! that is so hilarious.

[NYC Liberal]

30. You joke, but...

Cokie Roberts on Obama's vacation: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state," but it looks "foreign, exotic"

On the August 10 edition of ABC's This Week, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- who was born in Hawaii -- for "going off this week to a vacation in Hawaii," which she said "does not make any sense whatsoever." Roberts stated: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place." Roberts continued: "He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he's going to take a vacation at this time."

https://mediamatters.org/video/2008/08/10/cokie-roberts-on-obamas-vacation-i-know-his-gra/144326

[yardwork]

33. What does Cokie have to say about Trump's vacations?

[Aristus]

13. Next up: Jeff Sessions' Alaska - "A real, real cold place up thar North a ways..."

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]

26. But Alaska gave the GOP their hope for women

Caribou Barbie

[Steven Maurer]

34. But Alaska has snow...

And that makes it white. So, A-Ok in Sessons' book.

[Mendocino]

15. Why not a series of tubes?

Good grief, the right sure has some dullards.

[Skittles]

16. they're not a REAL state, you know, like KANSAS

they're......FOREIGNERS!

[El Mimbreno]

22. Of course they're foreigners...

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]

19. People are Majorly Pissed

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]

20. Sad that the Attorney General doesn't understand this. Could it be because Obama was born there?

[ck4829]

25. Kick

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Frightening that such a stupid and racist man as sessions is anywhere near our government

[dalton99a]

31. More racist idiocy from the Russia-loving Southern White Christian Little Man

[Paladin]

32. Jeff Sessions, I christen thee "ULSWALD."

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."