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Sessions: Why Confirm an AG Who’s Going to Execute an Unconstitutional Policy?
CNSNews ^ | January 29, 2015 | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 01/29/2015 2:22:51 PM PST by jazusamo

Video - 4:33 minutes at link.

(CNSNews.com)

– Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama’s executive action plan for illegal immigrants was unconstitutional and therefore Congress must not confirm Obama’s attorney general nominee who is committed to executing that “illegal and unconstitutional” policy.

“So, why would we want to confirm someone who's going to continue to execute an unlawful, unconstitutional policy?” Sessions told CNSNews.com.

At the Capitol on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked Sessions if “illegal aliens have a right work in the U.S.,” he said, he said, “the law says they don’t, and it explicitly says an employer can't hire someone who's illegally here.”

“There's no question about this, this is why the president's action, his amnesty, is so stunningly, dramatically dangerous because our Congress considered what he wanted to be done and rejected it,” said Sessions. “And the president goes beyond saying well I don't have enough, I'm using prosecutorial discretion about who gets deported to the point where he says I'm giving up to 5 million people work authorization, Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, an ID card who under the law are here unlawfully.”

“This is, as Professor Turley has so eloquently stated, a i ncredible constitutional overreach,” said the senator. And Congress is not a potted plant, it needs to defend itself, it has certain powers that it should use to block this wrongdoing. One of those powers is confirmation power, so why would we want to confirm someone who's going to continue to execute an unlawful, unconstitutional policy?”

“One of the other powers, will soon be on the floor, is the power of the purse,” he pointed out, “and Congress has no responsibility to fund an executive program that they oppose as a matter of policy or, and in addition, is illegal and unconstitutional. So Congress should not give money to the Executive branch to execute a plan that's unlawful and especially when the American people by a substantial majority oppose what the president's doing.”

Session said he was “just baffled by the President's assertions of power that are so baseless,” adding “I don't think that we should feel obligated to confirm someone who stated in the hearing that she intends to continue those policies.”

CNSNews.com followed up: “Do you think Loretta Lynch should clarify her remarks to you where she said, 'I believe the right and the obligation to work is one that is shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here?'”

“Well I think that revealed her thinking, so they got scared about that because American people begin to see just how broad their view is on this issue,” Sessions replied.

“Secondly all she really said was, when she retracted, was that it's the 5 million people. Well that's the complaint about the president's action. He had no authority to give them the work permit, so she's supporting what the president said.”

“Her statement was unequivocal when she made it was at two [Senators]- both of those Senators said I believe a person here unlawfully should work and that she refused to say that she would not take legal action against an employer who gave preference to lawful workers over Obama, workers with an Obama card.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aghearing; alien; aliens; confirmation; doj; illegals; jeffsessions; lorettalynch; obama; sessions
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Sen. Sessions is dead on the money, he better be having a heart to heart with Hatch, Graham, McConnell and all Republicans to shoot down Lynch's conformation.
1 posted on 01/29/2015 2:22:51 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Because most pubbies in congress lack balls, brains, or both.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 2:25:08 PM PST by wny
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To: jazusamo

I have a better question:

Why isn’t Jeff Sessions running for president?


3 posted on 01/29/2015 2:25:57 PM PST by lacrew (5th)
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To: jazusamo

Uh oh. Boehner, McConnell and the Chamber of Commerce Choir had better have a long talk with Sen Sessions about getting with the program.


4 posted on 01/29/2015 2:27:13 PM PST by skeeter
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To: jazusamo

I concur.
God bless Senator Sessions!


5 posted on 01/29/2015 2:28:02 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: jazusamo

I have very little doubt that she will be confirmed, probably quite easily.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 2:29:59 PM PST by GeronL
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7 posted on 01/29/2015 2:31:16 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: lacrew

I have heard on local radio shows that Jeff sessions does not have any ambition to be President. That matches what I have seen over the years.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 2:31:33 PM PST by plain talk
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To: GeronL

Sadly I agree, there’s few senators with the cajones to vote against her.


9 posted on 01/29/2015 2:33:58 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: GeronL

Lynch is a typical 60’s Afro-American radical, racist, anti-Semite, Kwanzaa-celebrating, Kente cloth headress wearing, affirmative action fake. She’s Eric Holder in drag.


10 posted on 01/29/2015 2:34:52 PM PST by Argus
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To: onyx

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Right on, my FRiend!


11 posted on 01/29/2015 2:35:30 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: skeeter

The Establishment Republicans have a program?

Or did they just copy the program from the outgoing Democrats?

Continuity is SUCH an important part of the Senate traditions.


12 posted on 01/29/2015 2:35:42 PM PST by alloysteel (Je suis Charlie)
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To: wny

Pubbies will cave again. 100% certainty. Its what they do; its who they are.


13 posted on 01/29/2015 2:37:17 PM PST by Starboard
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14 posted on 01/29/2015 2:39:14 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo

15 posted on 01/29/2015 2:45:02 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: jazusamo

Who is running this monkey cage we call the United States Government?

So far today, we have the Pentagon running their own offensive against State Department Flack Hillary Clinton and Libya, an oligarch flunky going to be approved for AG, Labor Statistics coming out with the latest set of ridiculous numbers, another downdraft in oil, and heavens only know what Obama and his 26 minions gave away to the Saudis while the journochimps were deflected by Michelle’s bare head.

I thought three maybe four groups, but I don’t think anyone of them knows what the other is doing or who is scratching what itch.


16 posted on 01/29/2015 2:47:11 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Starboard

They’ll protest and whine and cavil about how she didn’t answer their questions,

then vote to confirm.

Perhaps some that are up for re-election in 2 yrs will vote against her, but the 4-6ers will vote to confirm.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 2:48:43 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: jazusamo

because she’s a black woman, an anti-constitutionalist communist liberal democrat and will protect the DC establishment and do the fraud president’s bidding, there is no doubt she will get confirmed by her DC criminal colleagues. One big happy family in DC scamming Americans as they rob us of our liberties and take by decree our hard earned money and our hard assets. Note to the American people: once this government puts you in the internment camps there will be no American military left to come and rescue you.


18 posted on 01/29/2015 2:49:41 PM PST by drypowder
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To: MrB

They’ll protest and whine...

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Yep, they’re all big on talk and bluster. Not so much when it comes to actually standing for something.

Does anyone have any idea what the GOP stands for, other than lying and obfuscating to get elected?


19 posted on 01/29/2015 2:53:15 PM PST by Starboard
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To: OpusatFR

I hear you, it’s like no one in government cares and that’s because they don’t... Especially 0bambam.


20 posted on 01/29/2015 3:02:51 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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