I never saw Sessions as a General Patton type, but I would have thought he would have done his job.
I don't understand two things: Why does Sessions stay on through the constant abuse? One would think pride would cause him to quit.
Why doesn't Trump just fire him?
Kellyane Conway says Sessions is doing a great job. What is wrong with you? No original thought repeat, repeat, repeat. Robots.
He is doing his job so well he has Liberals up in arms. Here is a liberal scorecard for Sessions. I am posting immigration because that was what Trump talked about specifically. If you click the link you can see everything:
Prior to becoming Attorney General, Sessions supported Trump’s campaign immigration promises, such as limiting or banning immigration by Muslims, and voted against bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. As AG, Sessions has done far more than supporting those Trump policies in court. In April, Sessions directed that all federal prosecutors’ offices, even those far from any border, devote significant new effort to prosecuting any and all immigration-related offenses, particularly non-violent offenses, reversing prior DOJ policies. Sessions dispatched 25 immigration judges to California and other locations, requiring that they work 12-hour days from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. to reduce the backlog of deportation cases. He joined with DHS in backing plans to arrest undocumented immigrants at courthouses when they appear for proceedings not related to their immigration status. Despite cuts elsewhere, the DOJ budget would spend $80 million, an increase of 19 percent, to hire 75 more immigration judges, and would add 120 border prosecutors and other legal officials to focus even more on immigration enforcement. With respect to immigration judges, the Trump-Sessions DOJ began plans in October to develop so-called “performance metrics,†criticized as quotas, to push judges to process cases faster, threatening their independence and the rights of immigrants who appear before them. And in January, Sessions limited the authority of immigration judges to administratively close complicated cases, which could lead to thousands more deportation orders, on top of a significant increase already in 2017.
Throughout his tenure as Attorney General, Sessions has taken aggressive action to try to force state and local governments to cooperate against their will in his efforts against immigrants. Several times, Sessions has threatened to cut off significant federal funding to sanctuary cities—which have taken steps to protect immigrant families and communities—unless they agree to cooperate with aggressive federal immigration actions, such as giving federal immigration agents access to local jails and holding immigrants without a warrant. In fact, on the same day in November that a federal court, joining two other courts that have issued similar decisions, ruled that DOJ could not block funds to Philadelphia because it is a sanctuary city. Sessions threatened to cut off funds to 29 sanctuary jurisdictions. Sessions personally accused Chicago of obstructing federal immigration laws in August, and threatened to subpoena documents from and take other action against sanctuary jurisdictions in January. Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen also revealed in January that DOJ is considering filing criminal charges against sanctuary cities, which experts say would violate the Constitution. In addition, the DOJ budget proposes changes to substantive federal law that would (1) require all local police to agree to detain immigrants in jail for longer than their scheduled release date in order to be picked up by federal authorities, (2) prohibit cities and states from enacting any policy that would bar their officials from asking people about their immigration status, and (3) allow suspension or “claw back†of grants from those that do not comply.
The Trump-Sessions DOJ has taken actions that are particularly harmful to immigrant children. Sessions initially supported a challenge to the DACA program filed by several states. Then, when a federal judge ruled that Trump’s action ending the program (pursuant to Sessions’ advice) was illegal Sessions took what he himself called the “rare step†of trying to get the Supreme Court to review the decision even before an appellate court had a chance to rule. Just before Christmas, Sessions’ DOJ revoked earlier guidance and issued a new memo to immigration judges that rescinded earlier directives about helping make young children comfortable in courtrooms and instructed judges to be skeptical despite “sympathetic†allegations; a sitting immigration judge called the tone of the memo “very distressing.†And DOJ has been particularly aggressive in trying (unsuccessfully) to defend the decision to try to bar immigrant teens in federal custody from seeking abortions, going so far as to ask the Supreme Court to refer one teen’s lawyer for professional discipline and vacate a judgment in her favor and to argue in another case that the government can disclose to others confidential information about a teen’s pregnancy and abortion plans.
Some actions by the Trump-Sessions DOJ threaten even the rights of long-standing legal immigrants in the US. In December, DOJ revoked earlier guidance about protecting lawful permanent residents against discrimination based on citizenship. That same month, DOJ also asked that a new question on citizenship be added to the 2020 Census, a move that civil rights leaders criticized as impractical, unnecessary, and likely to deter many legal residents from responding to the census at all. And in January, in an apparent effort to buttress Trump claims about the visa lottery program and so-called chain migration, DOJ and DHS released a report claiming that three-fourths of those convicted of terrorism since 2001 were born abroad, even though the report omits domestic terrorism and has no information on those who came to the US through the programs Trump has criticized. As House Judiciary ranking member Jerrold Nadler explained, the report is not only “misleading†but also seeks to “perpetuate a myth†that immigrants are “dangerous.†Sessions himself tried to do the same through a press release claiming the report showed that our immigration system has “undermined our national security and public safety.†Adding insult to injury,
Sessions criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox News in January for appearing to support traditional American immigration policy of helping the poor and disadvantaged, and claimed that “a good nation†should not admit people who are “illiterate†and have “no skills†and may “struggle in our country,†as so many legal immigrants have done. Sessions’ harsh and inhumane actions on immigration are deplorable.
http://www.pfaw.org/report/report-card-on-one-year-of-jeff-sessions-as-attorney-general-an-insult-to-justice/
