jeff sessions
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Donald Trump Has Always Been a Disloyal Thot
Shortly before Super Tuesday last year, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions endorsed Donald Trump for president. At a campaign rally in Sessions’ home state of Alabama, Sessions explained to the crowd that while “we don’t get everything we want” in a candidate, “at this time, in my best judgment, at this time in America’s history, we need…
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Everyone Hates Jeff Sessions
In this political climate, which seems to be grounded in separatism, it is rare when we can all come together to agree on one thing, but I think we can all agree that everyone hates Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Blacks hate Jeff Sessions. Latinos hate Jeff Sessions. Middle America hates Jeff Sessions. The president hates…
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Big Mad: Trump Says He Never Would Have Appointed Sessions if He’d Known He Wouldn’t Have His Back With That Whole Russia Thing
Where are your president’s handlers when he needs them? Does he even have handlers? Is there anyone in the White House in charge of making sure he doesn’t say stupid stuff to the media he is so critical of? Apparently not, because this latest thing is a doozy. In an interview with the New York…
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Jeff Sessions Just Made It Easier for Law Enforcement to Seize Your Assets Even if You Haven’t Been Convicted of a Crime
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it will be restarting the controversial “adoptive forfeiture” program, which allows local police departments and law enforcement agencies to seize the property of people suspected of a crime, even if they haven’t been charged with or convicted of one. This particular federal asset-forfeiture program, which is a very lucrative…
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In Addition to Killing Weed, Jeff Sessions Wants Police to Take All Your Shit, Too
What is the world coming to? U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is steadily trying to take us back to the ’80s (I wouldn’t fault you if you thought I was talking about the 1880s, but slavery was over then, so … ). Less than a week after saying that he wants the country to go…
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Business Casual Racist and Longtime Hater of the Blunt Jeff Sessions Would Like to Make D.A.R.E. Great Again
When it comes to what he would like to achieve as attorney general, business casual racist Jeff Sessions has long made many of his goals abundantly clear. When it to comes to black folks, he would very much like for us to stop whining about voting rights, police brutality and the Confederacy’s right to flex.…
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Eau de Bull: A Cologne of Arsenic and Environmental Racism for Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Wood
The Justice Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division is responsible for enforcing compliance with federal environmental laws. So to find that the fingerprints of coal lobbyist-turned-ENRD acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Wood are on an environmental-racism scandal is, actually, pretty par for the course with the Trump administration. In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency found…
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Congressional Black Caucus: Trump and His Administration Don’t Care About Black People
Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, Democrat from New Orleans and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a three-page letter Wednesday to Donald Trump declining his invitation to the CBC to meet with him, and outlining the many reasons the group as a whole is saying no. In a letter dated June 21 (pdf), Richmond opened…
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Y’all Knew Kamala Harris Was Black, Right? Turns Out She’s Also Got an Extra-Special Super Power
I’m sure it is tempting, but can folks please avoid that comfy cliché, “a star is born,” to describe what’s happening now with California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris? First, as we know, Harris is a mature black woman. It is not at all unreasonable to say that being a mature black woman in 2017 usually…
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Jeff Sessions Hearing: Kamala Harris Did Her Best Kyrie Irving Impression, but Senate Dems Still Got Stuffed by GOP
On Monday night, the Golden State Warriors won the NBA championship over the Cleveland Cavaliers in five noncompetitive games. After all the excitement and anticipation going into the series, it was a series of uninteresting blowouts. Cleveland lost because even though their big three mostly came to play, the rest of the team disappeared, and…