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ACLU vows to sue Sessions if he violates Constitution as AG
The Hill ^ | February 8, 2017 | Jennifer Calfas

Posted on 02/08/2017 6:01:22 PM PST by jazusamo

ACLU vows to sue Sessions if he violates Constitution as AG
© Greg Nash

The American Civil Liberties Union vowed to sue Jeff Sessions if he violates the Constitution immediately after he was confirmed by the Senate as attorney general.

“If he violates the Constitution, we’ll sue,” the ACLU tweeted on Wednesday night.

The ACLU made the first successful lawsuit against the Trump administration in late January when it filed a complaint on behalf of two men who were detained at an airport as a result of Trump’s controversial executive order.

A federal judge filed an emergency stay on parts of the executive order at the time as a result.

The group has received a flood of donations and is setting itself up as one of the key players in coming legal fights over Trump's agenda.

Sessions was confirmed by the Senate after a contentious, all-night debate about his nomination. Sessions, a senator from Alabama, was eventually confirmed in a 52-47 vote.

The vote came after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was barred from speaking on the Senate floor against Sessions Tuesday night. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said her speech, in which she was reading a letter by Coretta Scott King against Sessions's federal judgeship nomination in the 1980s, was impugning another member of the Senate.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aclu; agsessions; attorneygeneral; jeffsessions; leftism; sessions
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To: jazusamo

I don’t think Sessions will be ignoring the Constitution.

Dream on, ACLU.


61 posted on 02/08/2017 9:19:19 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: jazusamo

Doesn’t an ACLU threat come with the job?


62 posted on 02/08/2017 9:21:08 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: Farmer Dean

You have been reading my mind again.


63 posted on 02/08/2017 9:26:32 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning!)
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To: jazusamo

Oh how scary - the ACLU is going to sue him. Why don’t they just buzz off.


64 posted on 02/08/2017 9:29:01 PM PST by No Dems 2016
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To: jazusamo

Where were these Commie fags when their boy, Obonzo was trampling the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Sessions needs to go after these bastards. Especially now that the Muzzies have taken it over.


65 posted on 02/08/2017 9:50:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: jazusamo

ACLU = Anti-Constitutional Lawyers Union.


66 posted on 02/08/2017 10:03:26 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: jazusamo

And to sue him twice if he doesn’t.


67 posted on 02/08/2017 10:05:33 PM PST by moehoward
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To: jazusamo

The ACLU will sue Sessions regardless of what he does.


68 posted on 02/08/2017 10:11:59 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: jazusamo

ACLU head is a muzzy


69 posted on 02/09/2017 2:37:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: jazusamo

LOL! They know they are as close to irrelevant as they’ve ever been with a Trump/Sessions team executing and enforcing the Law of the Land....like all Dims, they need to bloviate to reassure themselves they still actually exist.


70 posted on 02/09/2017 4:03:11 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: wjcsux

I’m not a mind reader by any means.All decent people want to see the evil persons among us punished for their crimes.


71 posted on 02/09/2017 5:17:26 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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