Jeff
Sessions will restore the rule of law as Attorney General, by Natalia Castro
President-elect Donald Trump won the
election on a foundation of law and order, arguing that Hillary Clinton was an
example of the broken rule of law in our country. With his appointment of
Alabama Senator Jefferson Sessions as Attorney General, Trump took the first
step in fulfilling his promise to the American people.
Sessions has represented a
commitment to enforcing the law throughout his two-decade term as Senator of
Alabama, before that Session practiced law in the state and served as U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
During his time in the Senate,
Sessions fought for strict immigration controls, a key reason he aligned with
the Trump campaign early in the Presidential race. As the Conservative
Review’s Chris Pandolfo explained
in Nov. 2016, Sessions supported an expanded
definition of the term “criminal alien” in order to explicitly deputize the
states to enforce federal immigration law, expedite deportation of gang
members, clamp down on loopholes that allow legal immigrants who commit crimes
to continue on the path to citizenship instead of getting deported, and
would have overturned the Zadvydas v. Davis Supreme Court case that
Obama is using as an excuse to release criminal aliens after six months of
detention.
He has continued his law and order
approach through opposing even bipartisan criminal
justice reform which rolled back mandatory
minimum sentences. Sessions argued that the legislation, which would empty
federal prisons, would increase violent crime and harm minority communities by
surging recidivism and giving violent offenders breaks on crimes, despite even
GOP support for the bill Sessions maintained his law and order stance.
It is this resolve which makes
Sessions the necessary Attorney General. Americans proved on election day that
they are done with politicians acting above the law, and Sessions simply will
not allow it.
As Hillary Clinton’s emailed
investigation ensued, Bill Clinton’s meeting with Attorney General Lorretta
Lynch sent a strong message to the American people that the Clintons are above
the law. Even Delaware
Democrat Senator Chris Coons noted that
“I do think that this meeting sends the wrong signal and I don’t think it sends
the right signal. I think she should have steered clear, even of a brief,
casual social meeting with the former president.”
This was just days before FBI
director James Comey called Clinton “careless” but ultimately released her of
all charges in relation to the ongoing email investigation.
Now, Americans need to believe in
their justice system once again. As Americans
for Limited Government President Rich Manning explains
in a Nov. 2016 press release, “While soft-spoken, Senator Sessions has the
steel-willed determination to restore DOJ from its current corrupted
partisanship by putting the blindfold back on Lady Justice as he enforces the
law.”
While the legacy of President
Obama’s Justice Department and Clinton’s political involvement have corrupted
the justice system, Trump’s choosing of Sessions as Attorney General represents
the first step in restoring the rule of law. Manning notes, “Sessions will also
help remove the stain of an Obama Justice Department that views itself more as
political activists than neutral arbiters as has been witnessed by their legal
war on local police and their failure to enforce immigration laws.”
Sessions is one of few Senators to
consistently place the law of the land above all else; he has not picked
partisan sides, but the side of law and order. The mere election of Trump was
proof that the people want justice and with Sessions as Attorney General it is
being restored.
Natalia
Castro is a contributing editor at Americans for Limited Government.
http://netrightdaily.com/2016/11/jeff-sessions-will-restore-rule-law-attorney-general/
Comments
Jeff
Sessions was the first member of Congress to address excessive immigration. The
fact that the others in Congress didn’t, spoke volumes about them. How does a Congress vote for NAFTA in 1993 to
off-shore all of our jobs and keep doubling immigration from 500,000 to 1
million to 2 million to 3 million a year since 1989 and think that will be ok?
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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