Grew a set? Of boobs. Certainly not testicles. He needs to go.
God bless, Steve
In Suing California, Sessions Relies on an Obama Supreme Court Victory
Attorney General Jeff Sessions sued California this week for not doing enough to find and punish unauthorized immigrants.
Mr. Sessions said he was girding for an epic battle. “California is using every power it has — and some it doesn’t — to frustrate federal law enforcement,” he said in a speech in Sacramento on Wednesday. “So you can be sure I’m going to use every power I have to stop them.”
One of the weapons Mr. Sessions is counting on is a 2012 Supreme Court ruling siding with the Obama administration, which had sued Arizona for violating federal immigration laws. But in that case Mr. Obama’s lawyers accused the state of going too far in trying to find and punish unauthorized immigrants.
“The state may not pursue policies that undermine federal law,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority.
So it may turn out that the principle of federal supremacy over immigration established by the Obama administration will help the Trump Justice Department achieve diametrically different goals.
“The tables are turned,” said Peter J. Spiro, a law professor at Temple University.
The California case seems likely to reach the Supreme Court, where it could give rise to a landmark reckoning on the role of states in setting immigration policy. In the process, state and federal officials, along with judges and justices, will face a test of their commitment to consistency...
