Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, projecting again.
Posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by jazusamo
Video at link.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stern warning to California the same day he announced a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department over the state's immigration policies.
“I understand that we have a wide variety of political opinions out there on immigration. But the law is in the books and its purposes are clear and just,” Sessions said during a speech to the California Peace Officers’ Association in Sacramento on Wednesday.
“There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is the supreme law of the land. I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln. This matter has been settled,” he continued.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California on Wednesday that aims to block three so-called sanctuary laws California's legislature passed last year. The laws dictate how local jurisdictions should interact with federal immigration authorities. California’s laws, Sessions argued, are harmful to the state’s residents, and prevent law enforcement officers from doing their jobs.
He singled out Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who last month warned residents of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Schaaf defended her decision even after ICE said it was unable to locate more than 800 people as part of its sweep of the city.
"Here’s my message to Mayor Schaaf: How dare you," Sessions said Wednesday. "How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda."
He said the Justice Department isn’t asking the state to enforce federal immigration law, but rather is asking California and local jurisdictions to “stop actively obstructing federal law enforcement.”
“California is using every power it has, and some it doesn’t, to frustrate federal law enforcement,” Sessions said. “So you can be sure...
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Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 26 days.
AS LONG AS that federal law is PURSUANT to the U.S. Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the Land (Art VI, Cl.2).
The Constitution trumps federal law. The Constitution is the ONLY SOURCE of authority for valid federal laws and acts. It the federal law or act is not constitutional, it is not valid, and should be rejected, resisted, and nullified by the states.
Here, the issue is federal immigration law, which authority the Constitution has delegated to the feds, so the feds are in the right and California is in the wrong.
“”””Session is a joke. Holder would have been on it day one””
Holder would have arrested any cop that went after an illegal.
Sessions will do nothing but talk.
Actually, the nullification crisis was over powers actually delegated to the federal. As in the case here.
There hasn’t been a nullification crisis over powers not delegated to the federal but reserved to the States or the people. Things like regulation of commerce within States or saying things that affect interstate commerce but which are not actually interstate commerce may be regulated. There really needs to be a LOT of that sort of nullification!
Screw you hypocritical FReepers. Bashing Sessions nonstop. Hell with all of ya’ll hating mofos.
Oh, she dared you. How did you respond? Did you charge her with obstruction?
Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, projecting again.
All talk. How about some arrest warrants.
If we won’t let them leave, can we at least kick them out?
The La Raza Politburo in Sacramento does not care Mr. Sessions.
Unless those People are put in Orange Jumpsuits and Shackles, they will continue to push their Agenda.
LOL! He went to Kaliforniastan to make sure the point was not missed - if he prevails, the rest of the sanctuary cities are done...
I’d have to disagree.
It’s not settled. Before the iron fist of the sainted Lincoln came down, secession was not a question. It had been threatened before and simply not carried out. But no one griped about it.
Why on earth would we forbid separation when that is what we did ourselves?
Further, why would one want to force “union” with those who have such enmity against the rest?
Specific lawsuits are being filed against Moonbeam (Brown) and one of his goons. That will be good. Get out the popcorn.
I like to think that someone has explained to Sessions that he needs to exert himself on this one or else.
Sessions is all about Big Government. Even against the occasional Leftist.
I can’t help but think Sessions was on Petticoat Junction everytime I watch him speak.
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