Civil Rights Advocates Praise Jeff Sessions for Protecting Black American Workers

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow issued high praise for Donald Trump’s “inspired” decision to tap Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his Attorney General. “Senator Sessions is a good man and a great man. He has done more to protect the jobs and enhance the wages of black workers than anyone in either house of Congress over the last 10 years,” Kirsanow told Breitbart.

Indeed, arguably no U.S. lawmaker has worked more tirelessly than Jeff Sessions to uphold the legacy of Civil Rights leader and late-Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan–who, in arguing for immigration reductions, famously declared that immigration policy “ought to be a place where the national interest comes first, last, and always.”

“Of all the Senators and public officials that I’ve dealt with, I cannot think of anyone who has been more devoted to issues related to wages and employment levels of all Americans, but particularly black American workers,” Kirsanow said of Sessions.

It’s a matter that we have discussed in several Congressional hearings— the most recent of which was in March of this year. He has chaired the [Senate] subcommittee dealing with the impact of… immigration on the employment levels of black Americans.

“He is a man of tremendous integrity. I think it was an inspired pick,” Kirsanow added. “He’s going to be a marvelous Attorney General.”

Thank you for referencing that article blah. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Patriots, this is not good news about Sen. Sessions. Please bear with the following explanation.

As you read this post, please keep in mind that “conservative” does not necessarily mean “constitutional."

When Trump complained that Hillary was all talk and no action regarding winning the votes of the Black voters in the inner cities, there was a big constitutional problem with successful businessman Trump’s perspective imo.

More specifically, constitutionally low-information Trump unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand that federal lawmakers who “get the job done” are arguably a major constitutional problem in the context of a constitutionally limited power federal government. After all, in order for the feds to “get a job done” the feds are often stealing state powers to do so.

Consider the US Mail Service (1.8.7) and a handful of other domestic issues for example. The states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for domestic purposes outside the scope of those few services.

In other words, regardless that it is wrong for Hillary to lie to people, tricking them to vote for under the pretense of federal funding, her failure to deliver on the funding was actually constitutional since the feds have no constitutional authority to do such things anyway. (Trump doesn’t see this yet imo. Patriots need to enlighten him.)

On the other hand, given that Sen. Sessions has helped to improve job wages as evidenced by the referenced article, the problem is that wage issues are outside the scope of US Mail Services, the feds therefore having no constitutional authority to take action on such an issue.

In fact, regardless what FDR’s state-sovereignty-ignoring justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states had never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power regulate INTRAstate commerce.

”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

This means no constitutional authority to regulate vote-winning intrastate wages imo, as Sessions has evidently officially addressed.

So on one hand, liberal Hillary’s inaction on inner cities is actually constitutional, the feds having no express power to touch inner cities.

On the other hand, conservative, as opposed to constitutional, Sen. Sessions actually had no constitutional authority to officially address INTRAstate wage issues. (The ill-conceived 17th Amendment strikes again.)

Again, “conservative” does not necessarily mean “constitutional."

Corrections, insights welcome.

If patriots don’t work with Trump to make Congress surrender stolen state powers back to the states, then it is only a matter of time before we have another lawless president like Obama that works in cahoots with corrupt Congress to oppress the people imo.

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