The Cruelty of Jeff Sessions

[demmiblue]

He used his immense power to make America a more vengeful, brutal place.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Wednesday at the request of Donald Trump. He served a little less than two years as the head of the Department of Justice. During that time, Sessions used his immense power to make America a crueler, more brutal place. He was one of the most sadistic and unscrupulous attorneys general in American history.

At the Department of Justice, Sessions enforced the law in a manner that harmed racial minorities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. He rolled back Obama-era drug sentencing reforms in an effort to keep nonviolent offenders locked away for longer. He reversed a policy that limited the DOJ’s use of private prisons. He undermined consent decrees with law enforcement agencies that had a history of misconduct and killed a program that helped local agencies bring their policing in line with constitutional requirements. And he lobbied against bipartisan sentencing reform, falsely claiming that such legislation would benefit “a highly dangerous cohort of criminals.”

Sessions’ attack on immigrants was equally ruthless. He compelled immigration judges to order the deportation of more unauthorized immigrants and punished them when they did not. He barred most victims of domestic violence from seeking asylum in the United States, deporting survivors back to their persecutors. He attempted to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, subjecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to deportation but was too inept to do so lawfully. He tried to prevent states and cities from protecting immigrants within their borders. And he implemented the “zero tolerance” family separation policy, imprisoning thousands of individuals at the border for the misdemeanor of unlawful entry, then seizing their children and locking them in cages. (Hundreds of these kids are still separated from their parents.)

Meanwhile, Sessions mobilized the DOJ’s attorneys to torture immigrant minors in other ways. He fought in court to keep undocumented teenagers pregnant against their will, defending the Trump administration’s decision to block their access to abortion. His Justice Department made the astonishing claim that the federal government could decide that forced birth was in the “best interest” of children. It also revealed these minors’ pregnancies to family members who threatened to abuse them. And when the American Civil Liberties Union defeated this position in court, his DOJ launched a failed legal assault on individual ACLU lawyers for daring to defend their clients.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-resign-disgrace.html?via=rss_socialflow_twitter

[hlthe2b]

1. Despite his doing the right thing (recusal) ONCE, he was a despicable AG and we should not forget

He's surely going to try to reclaim his Senate Seat in 2020. We can NOT let him.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. His second right thing: adding that phrase "at your request ..." to his resignation letter.

That may have sabotaged 45's plans to replace him with a stooge.

But ... yeah ... despicable.

[Fuzzpope]

2. No tears formula

I've actually seen members here empathize with this Nero sized white gorilla, but it's compassion wasted on the inhuman. Sessions would pluck arms/legs from non-white immigrants and our POC limb from limb for fun if he could get away with it. The fact that Trump emasculated him publicly for his decision to recuse from the Mueller investigation avails nothing, it's sweets to the sweet and perfectly illustrates how little honor these amoral beasts extend to one another.

Whatever the reason he recused, it wasn't out of his skewered moral compass, like every other political actionable undertaken by a Repuke, the foundation was first and foremost his own survival.

I hate the idea of this man returning to Alabama's congress. I've lived here since 2014 and I can tell you, of all the politicians out there, I've never seen so rabid and instant an immune response as the citizens of this state display against this man.

He is hated to the ninth degree by virtually everyone I've met.

[dalton99a]

3. The Worst Attorney General Ever.