Jeff Sessions' Coming War on Legal Marijuana

[Torie]

Hopefully the headline is hyperbolic, but not good news! The pot issue needs to go the way of SSM - it's over honey, let's move on. Sessions finally got used to the idea of persons of color having equal rights. He now needs to get used to pot.

[Torie]

Hopefully the headline is hyperbolic, but not good news! The pot issue needs to go the way of SSM - it's over honey, let's move on. Sessions finally got used to the idea of persons of color having equal rights. He now needs to get used to pot.

*sigh

Just stop this stupidity. Please.

Being a strong political advocate does not mean you have to demonize your opposition just to make yourself feel superior. It does not mean you have to believe every piece of anti-opposition lie that gets pumped out when - deep down - you know it's garbage.

Sessions not only has a long history of defending civil rights, but has also specifically gone after and convicted KKK members who have sought to suppress minorities in the past. Many minority activists have publicly supported him and thanked him for his efforts. He's certainly done a lot more than you will ever do for equality.

So just stop this garbage. If liberals want to continue to have their main platform be 'you're a racist/sexist/homophobe if you disagree with me!', then your party will continue to lose.

Stop being willfully ignorant.

Please tell me what you really think. No reason to bottle it all up inside you.

[Torie]

How are the chances that the senate rejects his nomination? It wouldn’t be the first time (though the previous one was for a judge’s post).

Considering he is a sitting US Senator and the GOP controls the Senate, nil.

By a majority of two seats. Maybe someone like Rand Paul or Jeff Flake votes against him (assuming no single Democrat votes aye).

Manchin and Collins are already saying they will vote in favor.

There are reports that multiple Democrats will put an indefinite personal hold on his appointment, which is still allowed under the rules (only a filibuster was removed for appointments).

I don't think the out party has the power to put a hold on anything (and I think the hold power for the in party is just for judicial slots if my memory serves). But if you have a link to set me straight, that would be grand.

[Torie]

I think Attorney General Sessions will be too busy jailing dissidents, rolling back the Voting Rights Act, expanding the PATRIOT Act, spying on every single Mosque, somehow banning abortion again, forcibly divorcing gays and then forcibly remarrying them to middle aged divorcees, administering the imagined Hispanicaust, and forcing every American by law to carry a firearm at all times to bother going after a bunch of stoners.

I must say that you have an overactive imagination. Is that a natural "gift," or do you get help from certain "friends?"

[Torie]

This is a total violation of the 10th amendment. The courts should rule marijunana is states issue and not a federal issue

SCOTUS killed off that aspect of the generally comatose 10th amendment long ago, with its robust interpretation of the commence clause. Indeed it came close to killing off the 10th amendment, and federalism in general, with the Obamacare decision, where 4 of the 9 justices held that one was engaged in interstate commerce by choosing not to get out of bed in the morning. Cheers.