The word is that Sessions approved their request to subpoena a former Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter, John Sepulvado, to appear in court to talk about his interview with Ryan Bundy during the Oregon Standoff protest.
The Trump Administration has weighed in to help prosecution of the second group of protesters on trial in Oregon.
Many of us had hoped that the new administration would shut the prosecution of these people down, but that's not the signal we are getting with this action.
Last week the POTUS sent out a picture on his Twitter feed giving the thumbs up alongside the wife of Venezuelan political prison Leopoldo Lopez. President Trump called for the release of Lopez.
Well what about those considered political prisoners in our country like the folks being prosecuted in Nevada over the Bunkerville Standoff in 2014?
What about the political prosecution of those who came to Oregon last year to protest on behalf of the Hammonds, the ranchers jailed as terrorists for lighting a backfire to protect their land from a brush fire?
I do not believe the President has the authority to interfere with a on going prosecution. He may pardon them after a conviction. Sessions is coming into the middle of this. He will back the Prosecutor till the trial is over, as he should.
They damn well better figure it out soon.
Sessions may see this as a "law and order" issue but that isn't what it is.
It's about Trump's supporters in the West tired of being victimized by a far Left Federal government under the Obama administration that never believed in private property.
So Sessions needs to get past his outdated viewpoint and start asking real questions: like what drove these people to this in the first place.
So far, I haven't seen him making any moves to identify and arrest the violent terrorists in Berkeley who deprived hundreds of people of their civil right to free speech and association.
I guess if the Bundy's had put on black masks and beaten up people, they'd be free today?
Wake up Don.
The Bundy case is a severe overreach of the US government. It is time to drop all charges and move on.
“Many of us had hoped that the new administration would shut the prosecution of these people down, but that’s not the signal we are getting with this action.”
I agree whole-heartedly. Even if Trump was not up on this situation I hoped Sessions would be and that this persecution would be shut down.
I know reporters have been held in contempt for refusing to reveal sources when ordered to do so. Can the court hold the reporter in contempt if he pleads the fifth?
How does this Bundy group fit in with Evan ‘McMuffin’, Glenn Beck and the NeverTrumpers?
May YHVH protect His people, who stand against unlawful law, and unlawful government.