Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Sorry to hear Jeff Sessions has resigned. I am no fan of Jeff Sessions, but, he is probably better than his interim replacement.

Jess Sessions was highly controversial. He removed requirements that gave equality to transgender children in their schools. He removed the US Justice Department from monitoring or policing the police and the use of excessive force and racial profiling. 

Jeff Sessions has issued directives to Immigration Judges that prohibited many aspects of requests for asylum. People now citizens in the USA were investigated for fraud in their applications. He was seeking to strip citizenships from people in the USA that were already found worthy. I find that a dangerous precedent. What exactly is fraud?

Jeff Sessions decided on his own, DACA was unconstitutional, which was recently rejected by a judge. 

He was ridiculously pursuing the idea that marijuana was a classified drug requiring prosecution for growing or possessing. Michigan passed a referendum legalizing marijuana. So, all these movements into making marijuana legal were receiving strong ridicule from US Justice under Sessions. One might recall President Obama asked US Justice to be prudent in exercising those laws.

For all the bigotry and sad exercise of the law as if nothing had changed (It might not have changed in Alabama, though.) for decades his current successor is actually worse.

There is no good answer for a decent and prudent US Justice Department under this administration and legal practice of government has dropped to the state level. That is a very poorly run administration, but, at least the states are willing to protect citizens from lethal force and opportunistic million/billionaires.

There is much to do in the US House.

How is Whitaker worse? He completely aligns with Kavanaugh in exempting the Trump Company and the Trump family from the Russian investigation. The forcing Jeff Sessions to resign is about recusing himself from the investigation. This is Trump getting ready for a legal fight.

For all the country knows Jeff Sessions might be heading for an interview himself, especially now.