Posted on 01/10/2017 11:42:21 AM PST by Pinkbell
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared Tuesday during his Senate confirmation hearing that he would respect the Supreme Court's decisions about both Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage if he is confirmed as attorney general. While Sessions admitted he believes the ruling on women's right to abortion "violated the Constitution," he acknowledged that it is now "the law of the land." "I would respect it and follow it," Sessions said, while admitting he still thinks the Roe v. Wade decision was "colossally erroneous."
Sessions also indicated he agreed with President-elect Donald Trump that the debate over same-sex marriage is already "settled." "I will follow that decision," Sessions said, citing the Supreme Court's 5-4 vote in favor of broadening the definition of marriage.
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“Did you hear Ted Cruz today? He was great.”
Cruz was spectacular today sticking it to the Dems regarding their total hypocrisy at these Jeff Sessions hearings. He went up one small notch in redeeming himself in my book. Cruz was really at the top of his game, and was exceedingly helpful to Session’s cause. Bravo, job well done today, Ted Cruz.
What is he supposed to say? It is the ‘law of the land’ until the Supreme court says it is no longer the ‘law of the land.’
It does not deserve respect!
Well said, and I agree with you.
First get him the position. Then he’ll do the right things > IMO.
‘rats bein ‘Rats ...
Until they’re overturned. And that’s the Supreme Court’s department, not the Attorney General’s. His job is to enforce and defend the law as it exists, whether he likes the law or not.
Segregation was the law, too, until it was overturned.
In colonial Virginia, into the early days of the Republic, it was illegal to release slaves if you were in debt or to release dowry slaves. The former is the reason that Jefferson, who opposed slavery, could not release his slaves, and the latter is the reason Washington could not release his.
That was the law. That doesn’t men that it remained the law, nor that it should have.
Well, that is the current state of the law. Again, that can be changed.
Why is it that liberals seem to think it's OK to use force to compel those people to provide services that violate their religious principles, but they uphold and defend the right of designers to refuse to provide dresses for Melania Trump because of their political beliefs?
I am for allowing the refusal in all these cases, even if I think it's a bad idea (in the case of Melania), but it's just another reminder that if it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
Personally, I do not, nor never will accept so called homosexual marriage or practices. “It is abomination.”
The ag cannot create laws, so technically his statements are what they should be.
Enforcement of laws and prioritizing what laws to enforce are more at his discretion, just like bammy and the sociocrats have shown us.
If the laws change then he will enforce the new laws.
If no legislation has been passed how can they be laws.
Edicts by a pack of non-elected judges are the very definition of a tyranny that the anti-federalists warned us about.
His statement on that was that we have religious freedom in this country and people of good conscience who have an honest disagreement/objection to baking cakes for gay weddings (as an example..) should be protected.
I honestly think Sessions did a fantastic job today. The Democrats cannot stop him and I think we're going to see a pretty quick end to the religious persecution that the extremist gay left militants and their willing co-conspirators in the Democrat party come to a swift end.
Settled law is an irrational and incorrect concept.
Its just liberal code for dont touch the laws I like.
Why someone doesnt clearly state this on our side, is beyond me.
Activist court decisions.
Like all democrat wins, they ignore laws passed overwhelmingly by the PEOPLE on referendums and state constitutional admendments.
The ag does not make law. Cops dont make up the laws.
He can determine how to enforce them. And to what degree.
So does “the Week” think Sessions should have said it was not the law of the land???
What a dumb headline!
It could have read “Jeff Sessions concedes the sky is really blue” or “Jeff Sessions concedes the grass is really green”.
And Prohibition.
Thanks for the notification on that!
WOW!
What great points he made!
Notice the SJW behind Cruz fidgeting like she had hemorrhoids?
Proverbs 20:30
What law?
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