Attorney General Named!

Thing1 said:
More people?

Obviously, it means nothing in terms of who ends up in office. But, when it comes to characterizing the election as a "landslide," you would think the idea of "more people" would play into it...no?
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when the election has ALWAYS been by electoral votes, it wouldn't. except by those that think popular vote should decide the election for their candidate of choice.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
One thing for sure, we'll see an escalation in the war on drugs with more dead dogs and innocent people.
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I really had no idea - I looked it up as soon as I read this. This guy is in the dark ages on marijuana legalization.

So much for populism. Over 60% now support legalization, but Sessions looks likely to oppose the will of the people on this.
 
Thing1 said:
I really had no idea - I looked it up as soon as I read this. This guy is in the dark ages on marijuana legalization.

So much for populism. Over 60% now support legalization, but Sessions looks likely to oppose the will of the people on this.
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yep. all those dispensaries that obama said he'd leave alone will be out of business after they get raided by DEA.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Wow...great day for America. A Southern racist named Atty General. Why not just appoint David Duke?
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I suggest that you read this article in the Economist.

Expect, too, much talk of the attorney-general’s role overseeing voting rights, even after federal monitoring of state and local election rules has been sharply reduced by the Supreme Court. During his confirmation hearing back in 1986 Mr Sessions agreed that he had called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) a “piece of intrusive legislation.” By the time he became a senator his tone had greatly changed. He voted to reauthorise the VRA and sponsored legislation to honour with the Congressional Gold Medal the black civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, who endured racist violence at the hands of local police to promote the cause of voting. In Senate hearings Mr Sessions frequently said that there had been serious racial discrimination against blacks in the South. But he also sided with those conservatives who argued that the South had changed, making it unnecessary to maintain Section Five of the VRA which obliged a long list of jurisdictions with a history of racism to seek federal “preclearance” for any change to electoral laws, down to the location of polling places. In time the Supreme Court would come to agree with Mr Sessions and colleagues, striking down Section Five.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/11/no-ideologue

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anatta said:
he's a mindless interventionist. The UN brought us Libya. at this point the deal with Iran is done.
Focus on improving our relations with the Sunni states instead-they took a beating under Obama
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would be nice having a rabid attack dog on the team to show the world the consequences of not complying :)
 
cawacko said:
You can make whatever assumptions you would like Zap. It's funny you think right wingers would vote for Hillary.
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So that's a "NO", you've got NOTHING which indicates my statement was incorrect.

As I suspected.

And FYI...a number of "right wingers" did indeed vote for Hillary.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Why am I not surprised that, now that Trump has won, not a single JPP Rightie will admit that what "drain the swamp" meant during the election was that ALL political insiders...from BOTH parties...were going to be replaced with "outsiders" like Trump.

That's why Republicans got behind Trump during the primaries, he was a outsider who was going to "shake things up in DC" and get rid of ALL the political insiders.
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Dude, the election wasn't even two weeks ago, try and restrain yourself lol.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
So that's a "NO", you've got NOTHING which indicates my statement was incorrect.

As I suspected.

And FYI...a number of "right wingers" did indeed vote for Hillary.
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You can't prove your statement was correct either. You're making as ASSumption which you used to hate when others did the same.

Doesn't say much for Hillary that a number of right winners voted for her and she still lost.
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
And Sessions was declared racist by the fourth post.

Who would have guessed it lol!
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Even a GOP-led Senate admitted it.

"...he first emerged on the national political stage in the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan appointed him as a federal judge and the same committee, including Republican senators, rejected him for being too racist. She continued:“The young lawyer became only the second man in 50 years to be rejected by the Senate judiciary committee,” Wildman wrote. “The reasons for his rejection… had to do with a soupy mix of dubious and arguably racist moves, comments and motivations on the part of the Alabama native that led Senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was 'inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a U.S. Attorney, let alone a United States federal judge.'
 
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