Posted on 03/15/2018 11:48:42 AM PDT by detective
The Justice Department said in court Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made an “error” in his memo laying out the legal problems with the Obama-era DACA program, as a federal judge repeatedly blasted the Trump administration for weak reasoning in revoking the deportation amnesty.
Government lawyers say the error isn’t enough to sink their case, arguing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful and the risks of trying to defend it in court were enough to justify the six-month phase out the acting Homeland Security secretary initiated last year.
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Mind your language, please; there are ladies present.
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as a federal judge repeatedly blasted the Trump administration for weak reasoning in revoking the deportation amnesty.
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No bias in THIS case, eh?
Magoo only needed give ONE reason: EOs aren’t Law; DACA was created out of the ether by Zero. It is therefore void/null.
Pretty sure THAT *never* made it into the filing documentation.
Now, Sessions may be incompetent because he did not check the principal case upon which "his" decision rests, but further, there is a whole line of incompetent folks below him and another whole line who are traitorous. There are a lot of competent attorneys at DOJ, and so this f'up has to have been deliberate.
Sessions should, however, have checked his own stuff.
This case is not about the Constitution but about the abuse of the Obama administration's discretionary power not to prosecute. Since it involved DAPA Sessions should have had the case and a summary of the case prepared by his staff in front of him: AND when an improper summary was presented he should have banished those attorneys preparing or approving the summary to the outer reaches of DOJ hell - prosecute fish and game violations among Eskimos in Alaska or something.
Sessions should resign and run for his old senate seat.
“Who are these whimsy DOJ lawyers?”
Who do you think they are? They are Rats giving the Judge the means to rule against the POTUS and it is totally possible Sessions did it with intent.
I have to admit that your answer made me chuckle. Thank you, sir.
a federal judge repeatedly blasted the Trump administration for weak reasoning in revoking the deportation amnesty
IOW, the judge is probably another lawless appointee from Obama's or Clinton's era, and needs to be removed from the bench.
Exactly what did Sessions say?
He has a very conservative voting record during his time in the senate and he is a good man.
“Chain Migration & Visa Lottery
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to expand chain migration in 2007 Sen. Sessions voted against the Clinton Amendment (SA 1183) to S. 1348. The Clinton Amendment would significantly increase legal immigration by adding an unlimited number of spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents to the uncapped immediate relative category that currently is for the spouses, minor children and parents of U.S. citizens only. The spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents currently are allocated some 87,000 visas each year. The Clinton Amendment failed by a vote of 44 to 53.
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to increase chain migration in 2007 Sen. Sessions voted against the Menendez Amedment (SA 1194) to S. 1395. The Menedez Amendment would not only increase near-term legal immigration by more than 100,000 each year, it would remove even the façade that the bill would end chain migration. Specifically, it would change the cut-off date for reducing the “backlog” of family-sponsored immigration applicants from May 1, 2005, to January 1, 2007, the same date by which illegal aliens must have been unlawfully present in the United States in order to receive amnesty under this bill. It also adds 110,000 green cards a year for adult children and sibling backlog reduction. The Menedez Amendment failed by a vote of 53 to 44.
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to increase chain migration in 2007 Sen. Sessions voted against the Akaka Amendment (SA 1186) to S. 1387 The Akaka Amendment would exempt children of Filipino World War II veterans naturalized pursuant to the Immigration Act of 1990 from numerical limits on worldwide immigration. This additional exemption from caps on visa issuance would serve only to increase the flow of immigration into the United States.The Akaka Amendment passed by a vote of 97 to 9.
2015: Voted against the FY2016 Omnibus Spending bill to increase foreign workers and refugees Rep. Sessions voted against H.R. 2029, the Omnibus Spending bill for 2016. This legislation would increase the number of H-2B low-skilled, non-agricultural guest worker visas issued in 2016 from 66,000 to 264,000. It also increased funding for refugee resettlement to allow for an increase of 10,000 refugees in 2016.
and I am wondering if it isn’t Trump that is soft on dreamers.
I don’t think you’ll find many here. To say Sessions has been a disappointment, would be an understatement!
I think you’re mistaking it for the WaPo. Washington Times is a pretty conservative newspaper.
No, it wasn't.
See post #30.
Don’t fear. The error was intentional. It is 3D Chess you know?
For the time being, I’ve given up on the “Sessions is secretly pursuing a master plan to destroy the Deep State and save Trump” line of thought and have settled on the, “Sessions is the most disappointing Trump appointment so far, by far”.
Sessions did not screw up, this is a rat setup if ever there was one.
This is a setup by the justice lawyers and the judge to defeat the proposal before it gets off the ground.
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