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Thursday, February 9th, 2017

Jeff Sessions Is the New Head of Donald Trump’s Department of Justice

Author:     Leon Neyfakh
Source:     Slate
Publication Date:     Feb. 8 2017 7:39 PM
 Link: Jeff Sessions Is the New Head of Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
Stephan:   The Republicans want power more than they want to do that which is best for the country. So now we'll see what that leads to. Based on past performance it doesn't look promising.

Newly confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP

Jeff Sessions is your new attorney general. After a marathon session of testimony about the long-serving Alabama lawmaker’s record on voting rights, race, and criminal justice, Sessions has been confirmed, as expected, by his colleagues in the U.S. Senate, by a margin of 52 to 47. (West Virginia’s Joe Manchin was the only Democratic senator to vote for Sessions’ confirmation. Sessions himself abstained.)

What this means is that one of Donald Trump’s most loyal advisers is now the country’s most powerful law enforcement official. As the head of the Department of Justice, he will enjoy access to Trump’s ear while bearing the burden of his whims. In the process he will transform a federal agency that has, for the past eight years, been used as a tool for advancing civil rights, extending mercy to drug offenders and intervening on broken police departments plagued by systemic racism and cruelty.

Under Sessions—a man whom […]

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2 Comments

  1. shovland on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:56 am

    During the past 8 years the Dept of No Justice has allowed criminals to escape being sent to prison for their massive financial crimes.

  2. Rev. Dean on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 9:30 am

    Yes, Mr. Hovland, and now will Trump do anything to prosecute the offenders who caused the crash? It has become doubtful that Trump will prosecute his friends. That class is all the same; like a gang of hoodlums who get away with anything they want and, too me, Trump is the worst leader of that gang.